Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene

A crowded collage drawn in fine black line and washed with teal, mustard and rose: giant twisted ropes coil through a sky of torn blue paper above a gridded landscape of highways, plantations and fenced fields. A truck rolls along a road, cooling towers stand in a ring, a bucket tips yellow liquid onto rooftops, and a towering figure wades in from the far horizon.
Title
Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene
Artist
Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, Feifei Zhou
Collaborators
Lili Carr (Map Director), Victoria Baskin Coffey (Visual Editor), Jovan Maud (Copy and Digital Editor), and more than 100 contributing scientists, humanists, artists and poets
Date
2020
Description
A free, interactive online atlas that traces the ecologies that arise when nonhuman beings become entangled with human infrastructures, which its editors argue are the substance of the Anthropocene. Readers move through the atlas along routes of "detonators," "tippers" and "feral qualities." Along the way they find nearly 80 field reports by scientists and humanists alongside video, artwork, poetry and music, as well as a reading room and curriculum suggestions. The project was curated and edited by UC Santa Cruz anthropologist Anna Tsing with Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou, and published as a digital book by Stanford University Press. ArtReview ranked it 15th on its 2020 Power 100 list.
Artwork Type
Website / Digital Resource
Digital / New Media
Materiality
Digital / Electronic Media
Climate & Ecology Themes
Urban Landscapes and Infrastructures
Biodiversity and Species Loss
Concepts
More-than-Human Relations
Methods & Approaches
Art and Science Collaboration
Collaborative / Co-Creation
Field Research / Fieldwork
Audience / Engagement Type
Online / Digital
Academic / Research
Classroom and Formal Education
Location
Online
Geographic Scope
International / Global
Rights
Rights held by artist or creator
Website
feralatlas.org
Publisher
UC Santa Cruz, Department of Anthropology; Stanford University Press
Discipline / Field
Social Sciences
Humanities
Interdisciplinary
Item sets
California Art & Climate Archive
UC Santa Cruz
Media
A crowded collage drawn in fine black line and washed with teal, mustard and rose: giant twisted ropes coil through a sky of torn blue paper above a gridded landscape of highways, plantations and fenced fields. A truck rolls along a road, cooling towers stand in a ring, a bucket tips yellow liquid onto rooftops, and a towering figure wades in from the far horizon.Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, Feifei Zhou, Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene