Abbreviated CV

Josh Berson (they/he) is a novelist, anthropologist, philosopher, and sometime sound artist. Their work explores the deep history of human niche construction with a view to elucidating the ecology of sentience and its alternatives, our kinship with other presences living and geospheric, and the practicalities of food and shelter.

Books

2023 Autologous (The Elephants on the Salish Sea)
2021 The Human Scaffold (University of California)
2019 The Meat Question (MIT)
2015 Computable Bodies (Bloomsbury)

Selected Essays, Papers, etc

2022 Review of Johanna Drucker, Inventing the Alphabet (アイデア・IDEA 398)
2022 Deferred Maintenance (032c)
2021 Urbanization and the Limits of Scale (Aeon)
2019 Excerpt from The Meat Question (Salon)
2016 (with Melissa Ellamil et al) One in the Dance (PLoS ONE)
2014 The Dialectal Tribe and the Doctrine of Continuity (Comparative Studies in Society and History)

Selected Media

2022 Looking Back to Look Forwards (Counterpoint, ABC Radio)
2022 Stuff(The Philosopher’s Zone, ABC Radio)
2021 Moving Forward Together (At a Distance)
2021 I’m Recruiting Troops for the War on Waste (Gillian Tett in the Financial Times)
2019 Did Meat Make Us Human? (Slate)

Selected Events

2022 Land Deals in the Metaverse (with Exponential View)
2021 The Politics of Breathing (with Elizabeth Chin and the Berggruen Institute)

Selected Residencies

2022 Bogong Centre for Sound Culture
2018–19 USC Berggruen Fellow in the Transformations of the Human
2017 Shiro Oni Studio