Florin Prună is an environmental humanities scholar/philosopher and visual ethnographer. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Bucharest (2021) for his doctoral project, “Visualising the Anthropocene.” He also holds an MS in territorial planning (2011) and a BS in environmental science (2009). He is former RCC visiting scholar (2017–9), University of California Berkeley J2 exchange visitor (2019–21), and Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics at the University of Brighton associate member (2021–3).
Highly interdisciplinary, his work is the result of a constant experimentation process, of intercrossing and overlapping diverse socioenvironmental communication and knowledge (re)producing practices. He is keen on exploring alternative natureculture heritages and dedicated to exposing the epistemological and ethical vagaries of the Anthropocene.
Eclectic segments from his more-than-human visual-ethnography can be found at www.plumcloud.ro.
His current research interests revolve around the ‘postnatural’ and the coming into being of postnatural landscapes, assemblages, futures, and imaginaries.
Selected Publications:
- “Postnatural Sightings.” Media+Environment (2022). https://mediaenviron.org/post/1596-postnatural-sightings-by-florin-pruna.
- “Einvogelflogvorbei” [Abirdflewby]. kwerfeldein (2016). https://kwerfeldein.de/2016/05/12/florin-pruna-analog-gedanken/.
- “Un brad frumos la locul lui” [A Beautiful Tree in Its Space]. ETICA AZI of Centrul de Cercetare în Etică Aplicată (2014). http://www.ccea.ro/un-brad-frumos-la-locul-lui/.