︎ Dorion Sagan


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).