Living (on) Dust
Around the Globe with Mineral Particles & Microbial Hitchhikers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10264259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marit Bakke (0000-0003-0923-5247, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, corresponding author), Monika Bakke (Department of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland..) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 266-267 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/leon_a_01026 |
| OpenAlex | W1970670811 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
Moving dust is full of life, but this life is not what makes it move. Since the establishment of the germ theory of disease, dust has mainly been viewed as being invisibly threatening and visibly distressful. In this article, the author emphasizes that there has been another view on dust all along: This view both links the presence of dust in the atmosphere to meteorological events crucial for life and acknowledges its vital impact on the global ecology of land, water and air in a deep-time perspective. Moving dust is a planetary force of inseparable organic and nonorganic matter that shelters, transports, feeds but also kills life. Recently the force of dust, which has yet to be fully comprehended, has been employed in controversial geoengineering practices
Aerosol · Art · Astrobiology · Atmosphere (unit) · Biology · Earth science · Environmental ethics · Geography · Globe · Meteorology · Mineral dust · Perspective (graphical) · Visual arts · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Ecology · Environmental Science · Geology · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Planetary Science and Exploration · Psychology · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |