In the book Field Guide to a Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature, which I am currently reading, the authors theorize a category of nature that they label “feral.” Feral nature, as they describe it, is distinct from what we typically think of as “the natural world” because it exists, in part, due to human engineering efforts. In their words, it is “the state of nonhuman beings engaged with human projects, but not in the way the makers of those projects designed.” They expand: Witho...
