Maya Hey is a postdoctoral researcher with the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and a core member of the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes at the University of Helsinki.

• ContentsPrelude: What We Cannot See1. Working with MicrobesInterlude: The Kura2. Microbial Choreographies and the Many Steps of BrewingInterlude: Brown Rice Kōji3. Degrees of KnowingInterlude: Synchronizing Groupwork4. Embodied AttunementsInterlude: Prayers for Uncertainty5. Naming the UnknowableInterlude: Ufufu6. Playfulness in Uncertain TimesInterlude: Half and Double Perspectives7. Improvisational EthicsPostlude: Our Thermal FuturesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

"Singing with Invisible Worlds rethinks human–microbe futures, deftly showing how the Terada Honke brewers use nonscalable and multitemporal sensory practices to live and work with microbial uncertainty. Part incantation, part parable, the fermentation techniques that Maya Hey describes offer a moving methodological ethics for living together in increasingly pressurized times." —Emily Yates-Doerr, author of Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm"Microbes cause fermentation, but it's the deliberate, syncopated work of skilled craftspeople controlling microbial environments that results in quality fermented foods. In this meticulous account, Maya Hey reveals sake brewing to be a choreographed yet improvisational gathering of microbes, a ritualistic yet playful summoning of transformative forces. The outcome vastly exceeds what can be served in a cup." —Heather Paxson, author of The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America"You may not drink sake, and you may not dance, and you may not feel the beauty and playfulness of ongoingness – but read this book, and you might take up at least one of these shimmering practices. We are awash in microbes, thank goodness. As Maya Hey shows, since humans are necessarily entangled with microbes we also necessarily practice some form of relation with them, in time and space. Singing With Invisible Worlds offers a scintillating, grounded, and evocative model for practicing how we live, work, perceive, and dance with our co-constituting microbial kin and kinds." —Alexis Shotwell, author of Liberation Is Other People

Maya Hey is a postdoctoral researcher with the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and a core member of the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes at the University of Helsinki.

• ContentsPrelude: What We Cannot See1. Working with MicrobesInterlude: The Kura2. Microbial Choreographies and the Many Steps of BrewingInterlude: Brown Rice Kōji3. Degrees of KnowingInterlude: Synchronizing Groupwork4. Embodied AttunementsInterlude: Prayers for Uncertainty5. Naming the UnknowableInterlude: Ufufu6. Playfulness in Uncertain TimesInterlude: Half and Double Perspectives7. Improvisational EthicsPostlude: Our Thermal FuturesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

"Singing with Invisible Worlds rethinks human–microbe futures, deftly showing how the Terada Honke brewers use nonscalable and multitemporal sensory practices to live and work with microbial uncertainty. Part incantation, part parable, the fermentation techniques that Maya Hey describes offer a moving methodological ethics for living together in increasingly pressurized times." —Emily Yates-Doerr, author of Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm"Microbes cause fermentation, but it's the deliberate, syncopated work of skilled craftspeople controlling microbial environments that results in quality fermented foods. In this meticulous account, Maya Hey reveals sake brewing to be a choreographed yet improvisational gathering of microbes, a ritualistic yet playful summoning of transformative forces. The outcome vastly exceeds what can be served in a cup." —Heather Paxson, author of The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America"You may not drink sake, and you may not dance, and you may not feel the beauty and playfulness of ongoingness – but read this book, and you might take up at least one of these shimmering practices. We are awash in microbes, thank goodness. As Maya Hey shows, since humans are necessarily entangled with microbes we also necessarily practice some form of relation with them, in time and space. Singing With Invisible Worlds offers a scintillating, grounded, and evocative model for practicing how we live, work, perceive, and dance with our co-constituting microbial kin and kinds." —Alexis Shotwell, author of Liberation Is Other People

Maya Hey is a postdoctoral researcher with the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and a core member of the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes at the University of Helsinki.

• ContentsPrelude: What We Cannot See1. Working with MicrobesInterlude: The Kura2. Microbial Choreographies and the Many Steps of BrewingInterlude: Brown Rice Kōji3. Degrees of KnowingInterlude: Synchronizing Groupwork4. Embodied AttunementsInterlude: Prayers for Uncertainty5. Naming the UnknowableInterlude: Ufufu6. Playfulness in Uncertain TimesInterlude: Half and Double Perspectives7. Improvisational EthicsPostlude: Our Thermal FuturesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

"Singing with Invisible Worlds rethinks human–microbe futures, deftly showing how the Terada Honke brewers use nonscalable and multitemporal sensory practices to live and work with microbial uncertainty. Part incantation, part parable, the fermentation techniques that Maya Hey describes offer a moving methodological ethics for living together in increasingly pressurized times." —Emily Yates-Doerr, author of Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm"Microbes cause fermentation, but it's the deliberate, syncopated work of skilled craftspeople controlling microbial environments that results in quality fermented foods. In this meticulous account, Maya Hey reveals sake brewing to be a choreographed yet improvisational gathering of microbes, a ritualistic yet playful summoning of transformative forces. The outcome vastly exceeds what can be served in a cup." —Heather Paxson, author of The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America"You may not drink sake, and you may not dance, and you may not feel the beauty and playfulness of ongoingness – but read this book, and you might take up at least one of these shimmering practices. We are awash in microbes, thank goodness. As Maya Hey shows, since humans are necessarily entangled with microbes we also necessarily practice some form of relation with them, in time and space. Singing With Invisible Worlds offers a scintillating, grounded, and evocative model for practicing how we live, work, perceive, and dance with our co-constituting microbial kin and kinds." —Alexis Shotwell, author of Liberation Is Other People