Issue 1: The New Chimeras: A Bestiary of the Anthropocene, Cataloguing the Hybrid Creatures of Our Making
Just as medieval bestiaries once helped readers navigate both geographical and moral landscapes through fantastical creatures, this blog post shows how modern bestiaries catalog the strange new chimeras of our age: plastiglomerates fusing beach sand with melted plastic, cell towers disguised as trees, and surveillance robot dogs.
These monsters no longer dwell at the edges of our maps but within our everyday lives – in our homes, our food, and even our bodies. The chicken bones in our trash and the microplastics in our blood are the new markers of our Anthropocene era.
Through speculative zoology and anthropology, this post encourages us to imagine different possibilities for our hybrid future while questioning the very categories we use to separate the "natural" from the "artificial."
Hope you enjoy it: https://elsewhereanthropologist.substack.com/p/new-and-future-chimeras