The Webs of Life

Review of The Sounds of Life (2022) and Gaia’s Web (2024) by Karen Bakker

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.21807

Keywords:

multispecies studies, Anthropocene, biopolitics, sensory studies, eco-surveillance

Abstract

Review of:

Karen Bakker, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants. Princeton University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $33.00 (hb).

and

Karen Bakker, Gaia’s Web: How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth. MIT Press, 2024. 288 pp. $29.95 (hb)

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Author Biography

  • Ben De Bruyn, UCLouvain

    Ben De Bruyn is Professor of English Literature at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

References

Bakker, Karen. Gaia’s Web: How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024.

Bakker, Karen. The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022.

Haskell, David George. Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction. New York: Viking, 2022.

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Published

2025-07-30

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025)

Section

Reviews

License

Copyright (c) 2025 Ben De Bruyn (Author)

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

De Bruyn, Ben. 2025. “The Webs of Life: Review of The Sounds of Life (2022) and Gaia’s Web (2024) by Karen Bakker”. Humanimalia 15 (2): 231–239. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.21807.
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