How Microbes Became Friendly: Visualizations of the Microbiome in Public Media

15/06/2023 14 min

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Janelle Curry and Alexandra Widmer can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/06/how-microbes-became-friendly-visualizations-of-the-microbiome-in-public-media/. About the post: We take up these insights and examine one way that these ontologies of body and environment circulate in public ways by analyzing how the human body is depicted in relation to microbes and environments through public visualizations of the human microbiome. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

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