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"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?" -- Page [4] of cover.

Nature --- Human ecology --- Global environmental change --- ecologie --- 7.042 --- antropoceen --- bestiaria --- robots --- artificiële dieren --- iconologie --- dieren --- iconografie --- 130.2 --- cultuurfilosofie --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Change --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Anthropogenic soils --- Effect of human beings on --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Hybridization --- Technological innovations --- Art --- art [fine art] --- philosophy --- evolution --- technology [general associated concept] --- bestiaries --- hybridity --- fauna --- flora [plants] --- climate change --- Climatic changes --- Nature - Effect of human beings on --- Nature - Effect of human beings on - In art --- Hybridization - In art --- Technological innovations - In art --- Anthropocène --- art [discipline]