NatureCulture (https://www.natcult.net) is an English-language, peer-reviewed, online, open access journal based in Japan. Founded in 2012 by a small group of anthropologists at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and Osaka University, the journal has since established itself as an international platform for a dialogue across anthropology, science and technology studies and other related fields. The editorial board is composed of scholars from four continents and five disciplinary areas.
This PECE essay collects, explores, and gives contexts to the ideas and arguments that have driven the journal NatureCulture.
Embodiment, and more specifically the co-constituting relations between bodies and ecologies or worlds, form important foci of the NatureCulture project. I bring out in the associated artifacts the idea that NatureCulture (in its blog and journal forms) is contributing to a more radically...Read more
Rather than a pronounced topic of discussion, "experimentality" has been an underlying theme through the first five volumes of NatureCulture. From ethnographic explorations of experimental sciences to an ongoing engagement with the interferences of the conceptual and the empirical,...Read more
NatureCulture has repeatedly considered the theme of multiplicity since its first issue in 2012. Contributors have orbited notions of postpluralism, perspectivism, multinaturalism, and ontologies in order to think beyond unitary visions of culture and...Read more
The future has recently become an object of study in both human and social sciences. It is not merely an indefinite time period that inevitably comes after the present, but an effective and potent agency which acts upon us as an image, material, symbol...Read more
This essay is about the motivations behind the 5th issue of NatureCulture, a special issue on science fiction and anthropology, titled "Experiments in Thinking across Worlds".
