The Invisible Empire: Rethinking Human-Microbial Relations in the Age of Gastronomy

In 1952, the American public was presented with a portrait of scientific triumph: a painting by Robert Thom depicting French chemist Louis Pasteur, bathed in an ethereal light, inspecting two…

The Invisible Empire: Rethinking Our Microbial Entanglements in the Post-Pasteurian Age

For over a century, the Western scientific imagination has been dominated by a single, heroic narrative: the war against microbes. This era, defined by the work of French chemist Louis…