A BESTIARY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

A BESTIARY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE is an illustrated compilation of hybrid creatures of our time, equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet. Designed as a field handbook, it aims at helping us observe, navigate, and orientate into the increasingly artificial fabric of the world. Plastiglomerates, surveillance robot dogs, fordite, artificial grass, antenna trees, Sars-Covid-2, decapitated mountains, drone-fighting eagles, standardised bananas… each of these specimens are symptomatic of the rapidly transforming “post-natural” era we live in. Often without us even noticing them, these creatures exponentially spread and co-exist with us.

A BESTIARY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE seeks to capture this precise moment when the biosphere and technosphere merge and mesh into one new hybrid body. What happens when technologies and their unintended consequences become so ubiquitous that it is difficult to define what is “natural” or not? What does it mean to live in a hybrid environment made of organic and synthetic matter? What new specimens are currently populating our planet at the beginning of the 21st century?

CO-EDITORS NICOLAS NOVA & DISNOVATION.ORG

DESIGN & ILLUSTRATIONS MARIA ROSZKOWSKA (DISNOVATION.ORG)

FORMAT 256 PAGES, PAPERBACK, 148×210 MM, SILVER INK ON ULTRA BLACK PAPER

PUBLISHED BY SET MARGINS' | ISBN 978-90-833188-4-4
FIRST PUBLISHED BY ONOMATOPEE | ISBN 978-94-93148-44-4

CONTRIBUTIONS BY ALIENS IN GREEN, GEOFFREY C. BOWKER, BENJAMIN H. brATTON, PAULINE brIAND, PIERRE-OLIVIER DITTMAR, MATTHIEU DUPERREX, MICHEL LUSSAULT, ALEXANDRE MONNIN, NICOLAS MAIGRET, NICOLAS NOVA, THE CENTER FOR GENOMIC GASTRONOMY, MARIA ROSZKOWSKA, ANNA TSING

SUPPORTED BY: This book has received funding from the MSCA-RISE programme under grant agreement No 101007915 of European Union. In the framework of the NEST research, "Networking Ecologically Smart Territories".


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