Human Bonds within Organic Wholes

Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience

This essay introduces fourteen essays and artworks comprising this issue’s Special Section, Critical Commentary, Critical Perspectives, Lab Meeting, and Cover Art that address the topic of Chemical Entanglements: Gender and Exposure. This introduction emphasizes not only the varied vernaculars of chemicalized knowing highlighted in this scholarship and artwork but also their shared theorization of how specific molecular encounters are propelled by biopolitical systems that extend or curtail relationality amongst humans, other species, and the environment.

Ceramics Art Perception, 2010

F or most ceramic artists, clay is a metaphoric kind of earth. A dynamic, layered and complex organism which exists, reproduces and produces, is moved and torn and exists in a continuous transformation. This old element of nature offers mankind a world of opportunities to realize his own existence and rejoice in his creativity. Clay in this context offers the artist its concealed character in designing and in creative processes. What we perceive as a complex series of intellectual, spiritual and physical relations, offers its plain character after infiltrating our experiences. The artist creates a new work of art with the infiltrated pieces. The created work of art is in itself a layered organism, holding opportunities and forming a unique being after the interaction with its creator, Organic Bonds Burcu Ö. Karabey's Recent Works Article by A. Feyza Çakir Özgündoğdu Ne duyu, ne görü, sade yıldızlar. None sense nor sight only the stars now. Bütün müyüm, parça mıyım, kim bilir? Am I whole or a fragment, who knows? Yitmiş gitmişim güneşlerle yüklü; Loaded with suns I am lost and gone; Yiten güneş değil, toprak değildir. Neither the earth is lost nor the sun.

Journal of Organics, 2016

International, Open Access, Peer Reviewed, Free Special Issue *The Anthroposophic Art of Ernesto Genoni by John Paull

both attached to the OASE research group, carried out the investigation. Saki Ichihara Fomsgaard has finished the present publication. Drafts have been discussed in the OASE research group, and a final draft has been reviewed by me. Jan Holm Ingemann, Head of OASE

Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2007

A speculative account of the systems-layers presumed to be operative, and the series of relevant consensual domains - that bridge the gap between a strictly biological auto-poietic functioning, and the inter-personal experiential domain.

The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2009

From a scientific perspective, efforts to understand biology including what constitutes health and disease has become a chemical problem. However, chemists and biologists "see" the problems of understanding biology from different perspectives, and this has retarded progress in solving the problems especially as they relate to health and disease. This suggests that close collaboration between chemists and biologists is not only necessary but essential for progress in both the biology and chemistry that will provide solutions to the global questions of biology. This perspective has directed my scientific efforts for the past 45 years, and in this overview I provide my perspective of how the applications of synthetic chemistry, structural design, and numerous other chemical principles have intersected in my collaborations with biologists to provide new tools, new science, and new insights that were only made possible and fruitful by these collaborations.

You write this narrative autoethnography to open up a conversation about our chemical lives. You go through your day with chemical mindfulness, questioning taken-for-granted ideas about natural and artificial, healthy and unhealthy, dependency and addiction, trying to understand the chemical messages we consume through the experiences of everyday life. You reflect on how messages about chemicals influence and structure our lives and why some chemicals are celebrated and some are condemned. Using a second-person narrative voice, you show how the personal is relational and the chemical is cultural. You write because you seek a connection, a chemical bond. in communication inquiry! Correspondence should be addressed to