On Ferality, Patches and Infrastructures: How the Anthropocene is Detonating

INTERVIEWEE: Jennifer Deger and Feifei Zhou
INTERVIEWER: Valerio Franzone
MAGAZINE: KoozArch
ISSUE: #04 | Terra infirma
PUBLISHED: October 21, 2024

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A conversation with anthropologist Jennifer Deger and spatial and visual designer Feifei Zhou on Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene, their new book co-authored with Anna Tsing and Alder Keleman Saxena, on how humans affect the Earth and its systems both intentionally and unintentionally.

Anna Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou grouped a few years ago to investigate and represent how human and more-than-human interaction affects the Earth and its systems. Their work uses new interdisciplinary methodologies to analyse and narrate the planet’s current transformations and to understand the role of scientific and artistic disciplines in recording it. Their first attempt, the digital project Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene, is now paired with a new publication, a project that is not a follow-up but a companion, an invitation to "Take Field Guide . . . and get out there".

This conversation is part of KoozArch's Issue #04 | Terra Infirma.

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