ISOLATING INTIMACY
In looking at concepts of intimacy with/around micro-organic entities, relationship boundaries of ‘self’ and ‘other’ are of course necessary considerations, but so are the sites where this intimacy occurs and the processes by which it occurs. (See here an excellent paper on “human-thrush entanglements” re Candida albicans, self and other, by my friend and former colleague at SymbioticA, Tarsh Bates). If bacterial selves…

