Introduction 1 Many Anthropocenes 1.1 Geological Records 1.2 Scars of Extraction 1.3 Crude Oil 1.4 Synthetic Environments 1.5 Expanses of Monoculture 2 Reconfiguring the Geosphere 2.1 Soil Reserves 2.2 Riverine Ecologies 2.3 Marine Permutations 2.4 Post-Glacial Landscapes 2.5 Golden Age of the Sky 3 Floral Collectivism 3.1 Vegetal Agency 3.2 Botanical Politics 3.3 Self-Management of Plants 3.4 Plants on the Move 3.5 Arboreal Worlds 4 Animal Solidarities 4.1 Animals in the Museum 4.2 Non-Human Persons 4.3 Countering Extinction 4.4 Political Ornithology 4.5 Magnified Natures 5 Pluriversal Ecologies 5.1 Entangled Terrestrials 5.2 Reparative Histories 5.3 Green Protocols 5.4 Climates of Transformation 5.5 Eco-futurisms Conclusion Further Reading
Curators and art historians Dr. Maja Fowkes and Dr. Reuben Fowkes are co-directors of Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, and co-founders of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art, a research centre in Budapest that operates at the intersection between ecological thought and contemporary art. They are co-founders of the Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative at Central European University and have curated contemporary art and ecology programmes for the Institute of Advanced Studies research streams on Turbulence and Waste (2019-20). They are the authors of several books, including Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950, also in the World of Art series.