The Animal is Absent is a space dedicated to ideas at the intersection of technology, culture, and human nature.

Its premise is drawn from a long-standing argument in Biswajit's practice: that technological progress in the 21st century is leading us toward a future in which the human-animal gradually disappears — not through extinction, but through abstraction, digitisation, and the slow erasure of everything that cannot be rendered as data.

The title draws on a phrase from Jacques Derrida, who observed that the animal is always spoken about in its absence — as object, as metaphor, as category - but never encountered on its own terms. Technology, Biswajit argues, operates the same way: it structures our perception of the world before we have a chance to examine how it does so.

This space is guided by Marshall McLuhan's concept of the "anti-environment" - the idea that art functions as a mode of perception capable of revealing the invisible structures that govern the environment we inhabit. The essays, notes, and projects collected here are attempts to construct such anti-environments: places where the imperceptible becomes visible, where the taken-for-granted becomes strange again.

The writing spans NFTs and digital identity, surveillance and machine vision, ecology and hyperobjects, the philosophy of technology and the future of art. It is published without a fixed schedule and updated as ideas develop.