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Insects, dogs, shelf cattle. What does the future hold for the animals we treat as though they were the invisible appendages of our needs? As extinction speeds up and the food industry produces armies of ghosts infesting the Later West, the Anthropocene, which isn't some bizarre geological era but a storm of the imagination, is preparing illegible scenarios without us. What place can there be for animals in the collapse of the Earth system? What consequences will their disappearance or their uncontrolled proliferation have on our mental zoology? Should we eat them, think of them, dream of them or recognise them as different from us in order to invent an alternative to the current status quo?
Matteo Meschiari, an anthropologist, geographer and writer, has published a number of books including Neogeografia. Per un nuovo immaginario terrestre (Milieu 2019) and Antropocene fantastico. Scrivere un altro mondo (Armillaria 2020).