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Open-air cinema · Screen 1

Same room, different worlds

Jakob von Uexküll, and why nobody’s quite in the same room.

Uexküll showed that every creature lives in its own world of what matters to it. A tick’s forest is three signals. Yours is shaped by your history, your worries and your hopes.

The film’s own page: the transcript, and things to read

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