Possibility

*Possibility* In Hermès V, Michel Serres speaks of the Northwest Passage, the sea route through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.1 It is a place where the earth, sky, and water alternately melt and freeze together. As the seasons turn, the passage appears and disappears again; the archipelago breathes. This means that when we want to navigate…

Collaboration

*Collaboration* …at stake (…) are the effective conditions of an encounter, not the recognition of submission. Isabelle Stengers, Cosmopolitics II. University of Minnesota Press, 2011. In Cosmopolitics II, Isabelle Stengers writes about the figure of the diplomat. The diplomat is sent to establish or maintain a (diplomatic) relationship. On the one hand, this means she…