Dorion Sagan is a celebrated writer,
ecological philosopher, and author or co-author of twenty-five books, which
have been translated into fifteen languages (French, Italian, Japanese,
Chinese, Dutch, German, Danish, Spanish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Turkish,
Romanian, Catalan, and Basque). As an ecological theorist he has been at the
forefront of bringing our growing understanding of symbiosis as a major force
in evolution into the intellectual mainstream, both within science and the
humanities, and rethinking the human body as a “multispecies organism.” Sagan
has recently continued his lifelong efforts to decenter the human by proposing
the concept of Cyanocene in response to the Anthropocene debates (e.g., “Coda:
Beautiful Monsters: Terra in the Cyanocene," Arts of Living on a Damaged
Planet, University of Minnesota, 2017). A serial collaborator on scientific,
intellectual, and artistic projects, Sagan's work ethic follows that of
evolving life, whose creativity derives largely from symbiotic merger and
genetic recombination. With Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis, his parents, he is
coauthor of the entries for both “Life” and “Extraterrestrial Life” in the
Encyclopedia Britannica. He is the author of He is the co-author of
"Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution" (University
of California Press: 2023) and of “Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges
of Science “(University of Minnesota Press, 2013).