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Writer and researcher at NYU Shanghai. Working on the future of technological materiality. Science/Philosophy/Media Arts [email protected]

Joined April 2021
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What do a sea slug, a computer, and a brick have in common? They can all be powered by photosynthesis through an engineered symbiosis with microbes. 🐌🦠💻 More about technological holobionts in a new Soft Futures article. softfutures.substack.com/p/p…
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Delighted to share my new essay for @e_flux Architecture: a hopeful manifesto for a softer, hypernatural future. On living robots, neural computers, and the co-evolution of technology and nature 🌀 e-flux.com/architecture/inte…
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We think that all memory is stored in the brain. But our study published today in @NatureComms shows that all cells—even kidney cells—can count, detect patterns, store memories, and do so similarly to brain cells. My first (co)corresponding author paper!🧵nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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I've been thinking a lot about "micro-sustainability" and the significance of shifting the scales of technological climate interventions lately. This call to action seems particularly interesting and important nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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🕸️"En cierto modo, nuestra civilización, nuestro mundo humano, se hace en enredo con los no humanos y en conexión con los materiales". @nataliagelos conversó con @TripaldiLaura a raíz de la edición argentina de su libro Mentes paralelas [@cajanegraedit] revistacrisis.com.ar/notas/l…
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What we see, touch or feel in our everyday world bears little resemblance to the strange behaviours unfolding at the nano scale, where materials exhibit properties that defy conventional wisdom and structures emerge with mind-boggling complexity rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/so… #podcast
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#LauraTripaldi difende la sperimentazione umana nel mondo poetico e tecnologico, sfidando l'idea di una "verità" del corpo #femminile. Felice Cimatti legge "Gender tech: Come la tecnologia controlla il corpo delle donne" di Laura Tripaldi. fatamorganaweb.it/gender-tec…
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Le chiamano ‘tecnologie di genere’: sono dispositivi come le app per monitorare il ciclo mestruale o l’ovulazione, ecografia a ultrasuoni, test di gravidanza e pillole contraccettive. Tutti dispositivi che hanno garantito e favorito l’autodeterminazione riproduttiva della donna, ma che corrono sul filo sottile del controllo del corpo e della vita privata delle donne. Ne parleremo alle 11.30 su @Radio3tweet1
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Al microfono di @elisabetta_tola la ricercatrice @TripaldiLaura, esperta in scienza e nanotecnologie dei materiali, autrice del saggio "Gender tech. Come la tecnologia controlla il corpo delle donne" (@editorilaterza 2023): nel mio libro sono partita dalla definizione di donna per indagare i confini tra le nuove tecnologie e corpi femminili
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Laura Tripaldi retweeted
Writer and independent researcher @TripaldiLaura shows how politics can play out in the nanoscale dimension, by focusing on the role of colloids in defining what “matter” and “bodies” are. 👉 Read the new #PostScriptUM at: tinyurl.com/5f7bbdr9 #tacticspractice #lauratripaldi
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So thrilled to be a part of conflux festival in Rotterdam today! Check out the amazing program of the festival at confluxfestival.nl ✨
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The swimming "organism" in this video was artificially created from a simple mixture of an hydrocarbon, a surfactant, and water. It spontaneously protrudes elastic "tails" that propel it forward. Read more about it on softfutures.substack.com 🦑🔗
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Sapete che la prima cellula potrebbe essere nata dentro a una microscopica cavità cristallina? E che la vita ha generato più del 50% dei minerali esistenti sulla Terra? Ho scritto di queste e altre simbiosi tra i minerali e la vita su @ilTascabile💎🦠 iltascabile.com/scienze/i-mi…
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Laura Tripaldi retweeted
Da Lisbona all'Indonesia a Città del Messico, i "sogni di libertà" del nuovo precariato cognitivo occidentale stanno rendendo invivibili interi territori. Ce lo racconta Irene Doda al grido di "digital nomads, you're disgusting!" not.neroeditions.com/i-nomad…
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These smiley faces have a diameter of about 100 nanometers - a thousand times smaller than the average size of your cells. They are made out of a long DNA molecule precisely folded onto itself. Read more about "DNA origami" on Soft Futures 🙂🙃 softfutures.substack.com/p/d…
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Laura Tripaldi retweeted
«Com’è un rave? Un martello pneumatico in una sauna. Rave, rove, rêve. Delirare, vagabondare, sognare». 🔥🔥RAVING di McKenzie Wark🔥🔥è da ieri in libreria e sul nostro sito neroeditions.com/product/rav…
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