Stephen Loo
Biographic Data
| ID | 177484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Loo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Loo |
| SIGNATURE | LOO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0694-1552 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tastes of Justice: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food-Art Practices in Asia and Australia
Counterpointing Care: Performing with fungi in three (in)different acts
An intricate lace-like net of chitin, acids and enzymes dwell in the interstices of life and nonlife, between plants, animals, biomass and the atmosphere, working in and through others; always dismantling, repairing and remaking matter. These are the ecologies of mycelial networks and fungal bodies that have given rise to biospherical life as we know it. Now, on the eve of planetary environmental collapse, calls to care for these vital fungal rel…
On the Political Biology of Eating and Performing (with) Food
Performance research involving food frequently focuses the ‘political economy of food sovereignty' where political action involves providing visibility to power differentials in righting injustices and/or celebrating differences. Alimentary and gustatory processes of eating are often assumed as ‘naturally' given and rarely put under a critical biopolitical lens. This essay, which zigzags between three food performances and three interdisciplinary…
Insect Affects: The Big and Small of the Entomological Imagination in Childhood
Drawing on a scene in J.M.G. Le Clzio's novel Terra Amata, which tells the story of the instincts of a small boy, the minute sensoria of some bugs and a cosmic catastrophe, this essay demonstrates the ambivalence around insects in animal studies, their contingent location in psychoanalysis and the conundrums they place in ethical philosophy. By reading Le Clzio's tale through Uexkll, Freud, Dodds and Stengers we argue for more nuanced, imbricated…
Eating (with) Insects: Insect Gastronomies and Upside-Down Ethics
A Picture Book of Invisible Worlds: Semblances of Insects and Humans in Jakob Von Uexküll's Laboratory
Dorion Sagan observes that pioneering ethologist Jakob von Uexkll tends to be read in contrasting ways, as a humble naturalist pre-empting current research in biosemiotics, animal perception and agency; and as a biologist-shaman, gesturing to a transcendental realm where the life-worlds of animals interconnect in a vast symphony of nature. In both cases the tools of the laboratory are thought to generate complete pictures of the invertebrates tha…
Urban Renewal From the Inside Out: Spatial and Critical Literacies in a Low Socioeconomic School Community
This article focuses on how teachers worked to build a meaningful curriculum around changes to a neighborhood and school grounds in a precinct listed for urban renewal. Drawing on a long-term relationship with the principal and one teacher, the researchers planned and designed a collaborative project to involve children as active participants in the redevelopment process, negotiating and redesigning an area between the preschool and the school. T…
A Picture Book of Invisible Worlds: Semblances of Insects and Humans in Jakob Von Uexküll's Laboratory
Dorion Sagan observes that pioneering ethologist Jakob von Uexkll tends to be read in contrasting ways, as a humble naturalist pre-empting current research in biosemiotics, animal perception and agency; and as a biologist-shaman, gesturing to a transcendental realm where the life-worlds of animals interconnect in a vast symphony of nature. In both cases the tools of the laboratory are thought to generate complete pictures of the invertebrates tha…
Eating (with) Insects: Insect Gastronomies and Upside-Down Ethics
Insect Affects: The Big and Small of the Entomological Imagination in Childhood
Drawing on a scene in J.M.G. Le Clzio's novel Terra Amata, which tells the story of the instincts of a small boy, the minute sensoria of some bugs and a cosmic catastrophe, this essay demonstrates the ambivalence around insects in animal studies, their contingent location in psychoanalysis and the conundrums they place in ethical philosophy. By reading Le Clzio's tale through Uexkll, Freud, Dodds and Stengers we argue for more nuanced, imbricated…
Urban Renewal From the Inside Out: Spatial and Critical Literacies in a Low Socioeconomic School Community
This article focuses on how teachers worked to build a meaningful curriculum around changes to a neighborhood and school grounds in a precinct listed for urban renewal. Drawing on a long-term relationship with the principal and one teacher, the researchers planned and designed a collaborative project to involve children as active participants in the redevelopment process, negotiating and redesigning an area between the preschool and the school. T…
Eating (with) Insects: Insect Gastronomies and Upside-Down Ethics
A Picture Book of Invisible Worlds: Semblances of Insects and Humans in Jakob Von Uexküll's Laboratory
Dorion Sagan observes that pioneering ethologist Jakob von Uexkll tends to be read in contrasting ways, as a humble naturalist pre-empting current research in biosemiotics, animal perception and agency; and as a biologist-shaman, gesturing to a transcendental realm where the life-worlds of animals interconnect in a vast symphony of nature. In both cases the tools of the laboratory are thought to generate complete pictures of the invertebrates tha…
Insect Affects: The Big and Small of the Entomological Imagination in Childhood
Drawing on a scene in J.M.G. Le Clzio's novel Terra Amata, which tells the story of the instincts of a small boy, the minute sensoria of some bugs and a cosmic catastrophe, this essay demonstrates the ambivalence around insects in animal studies, their contingent location in psychoanalysis and the conundrums they place in ethical philosophy. By reading Le Clzio's tale through Uexkll, Freud, Dodds and Stengers we argue for more nuanced, imbricated…
Counterpointing Care: Performing with fungi in three (in)different acts
An intricate lace-like net of chitin, acids and enzymes dwell in the interstices of life and nonlife, between plants, animals, biomass and the atmosphere, working in and through others; always dismantling, repairing and remaking matter. These are the ecologies of mycelial networks and fungal bodies that have given rise to biospherical life as we know it. Now, on the eve of planetary environmental collapse, calls to care for these vital fungal rel…
On the Political Biology of Eating and Performing (with) Food
Performance research involving food frequently focuses the ‘political economy of food sovereignty' where political action involves providing visibility to power differentials in righting injustices and/or celebrating differences. Alimentary and gustatory processes of eating are often assumed as ‘naturally' given and rarely put under a critical biopolitical lens. This essay, which zigzags between three food performances and three interdisciplinary…
Tastes of Justice: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food-Art Practices in Asia and Australia
Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Biosemiotics (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Instinct (2 works)