CONTENTS

I.WELCOME TO THE ANTHROPOCENE

Apps for Apes

Wild Heart, Anthropocene Mind

Black Marble

Handmade Landscapes

A Dialect of Stone

Monkeying with the Weather

Gaia in a Temper

Brainstorming from Equator to Ice

Blue Revolution

II.IN THE HOUSE OF STONE AND LIGHT

Asphalt Jungles

A Green Man in a Green Shade

House Plants? How Passé

Opportunity Warms

III.IS NATURE “NATURAL” ANYMORE?

Is Nature “Natural” Anymore?

The Slow-Motion Invaders

“They Had No Choice”

Paddling in the Gene Pool

For Love of a Snail

IV.NATURE, PIXILATED

An (Un)Natural Future of the Senses

Weighing in the Nanoscale

Nature, Pixilated

The Interspecies Internet

Your Passion Flower Is Sexting You

When Robots Weep, Who Will Comfort Them?

Robots on a Date

Printing a Rocking Horse on Mars

V.OUR BODIES, OUR NATURE

The (3D-Printed) Ear He Lends Me

Cyborgs and Chimeras

DNA’S Secret Doormen

Meet My Maker, the Mad Molecule

Conclusion: Wild Heart, Anthropocene Mind (Revisited)

Acknowledgments

Notes

Further Reading

Index