(DE 2018, 10 min)

Holobiont (2018) considers the idea of embodied cognition on a planetary scale, featuring a zoom from outer space to inside the gut. It documents Planetary Protection rituals at the European Space Agency and explores extremophilic bacteria in fermented foods as possible distributors of life between the stars. Bacillus subtilis, the nattō bacterium, plays a leading role. The term ‘holobiont’ stands for an entity made of many species, all inseparably linked in their ecology and evolution.