Editors
Nicolas Nova, Maria Roszkowska, Nicolas Maigret, and disnovation.org.
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene
Illustrated field handbook.
An illustrated compilation of hybrid creatures of our time, equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet. It aims at helping us observe, navigate, and orientate into the increasingly artificial fabric of the world.
Across minerals, animals, plants, fungi, infrastructures, and industrial leftovers, it maps the creatures that now populate a transformed planet.
Preview
Designed as a field handbook, it aims at helping us observe, navigate, and orientate into the increasingly artificial fabric of the world.
100+ original collages and handmade pointillist illustrations | 60 written observations on contemporary hybrid specimens | 11 essays by leading writers, researchers, and artists
Structure
Kingdoms of minerals, animals, plants, fungi, and miscellaneous creatures, followed by essays on artificiality, classification, ferality, and recombinant commons.
For readers
Artists, designers, anthropologists, curators, researchers, and anyone trying to make sense of post-natural life.
Data
A Bestiary of The Anthropocene
Nicolas Nova & DISNOVATION.ORG
Design: Maria Roszkowska
Publishers:
Onomatopee
Set Margins'
art&fiction
Moscabianca Edizioni
Ediciones Menguantes
Matthes & Seitz Berlin
Contributors
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
Anna Tsing
Chapters
Forewords
Kingdom of Minerals
Kingdom of Animals
Kingdom of Plants
Kingdom of Misc.
On Recombinant Commons
On Temporalities
On Artificiality
On Ferality
On Bestiaries
On Classification
On Life With Non-Living
On Negative Commons
On Planetary Indigestion
On Anthropogenic Landscapes