Abstract

Microbes lead to a rethinking of living entanglements from an ecological, anthropological and epistemological perspective. Microcosm ecology highlights microbial metabolisms that reconfigure the traditional concepts of biology and enable us to foresee a more-than-human terraformation with microbes. An anthropology of microbes questions the existence of a microbial turn, from a pathogenic vision to a symbiotic vision of microbial activity. Finally, the epistemology of microorganisms explores connections of scales, decentred and non-dualistic perspectives, and micro-ontologies that attest to the agency of matter.