Interference Acts: Performances along the Threshold of the Human and Nonhuman

This essay focuses on moments of interference and collision between animals, technologies, infrastructures, and environments. News reports of such entanglements are on the rise: a shark bites an Internet cable, an eagle brings down a drone, ants short circuit ventilation units. As physical systems become increasingly obfuscated through the myth of the ethereal “cloud”, what do such couplings reveal about the complexity of geopolitical networks? How might collisions of the human and nonhuman help to illuminate perspectives relating to environmental justice, agency, and rights? What type of aesthetical context is required in order to comprehend such noisy transmissions?

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