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Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

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Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize “feral” ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control. These infrastructural effects, Feral Atlas argues, are the Anthropocene.

Playful, political, and insistently attuned to more-than-human histories, Feral Atlas does more than catalog sites of imperial and industrial ruin. Stretching conventional notions of maps and mapping, it draws on the relational potential of the digital to offer new ways of analyzing—and apprehending—the Anthropocene; while acknowledging danger, it demonstrates how in situ observation and transdisciplinary collaboration can cultivate vital forms of recognition and response to the urgent environmental challenges of our times.

22 pages, ebook

Published January 1, 2021

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place and coeditor of Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture.

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May 13, 2026
Culture générale ou piqûre de rappel de notre influence sur la migration des espèces.
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June 2, 2026
Atlas féral – Histoires vraies et proliférantes des résistances est un livre fascinant et profondément marquant. J’ai particulièrement apprécié sa capacité à mettre en perspective les conséquences des actions humaines sur la Terre, sans simplification ni catastrophisme facile.

À travers soixante-dix-neuf rapports de terrain rédigés par des scientifiques, des humanistes et des artistes, l’ouvrage explore ce qui s’est passé, ce qui est en train de se produire, et peut-être ce qui nous attend. Chaque texte ouvre une fenêtre sur des réalités souvent méconnues, troublantes ou étonnantes.

J’y ai découvert, entre autres, le terrifiant Candida auris ou encore l’incroyable capacité d’adaptation des rats. Autant d’exemples qui montrent à quel point le vivant résiste, prolifère, s’adapte… parfois de manière préoccupante.

Un livre dense, intelligent, stimulant, qui invite à regarder autrement notre monde et les traces que nous y laissons. À lire absolument.
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October 5, 2025
So adorable i love this book, i really admire the vibes of this book, so amazing ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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