Forthcoming Book - Fall 2026!

Our Multispecies Futures is forthcoming in Fall 2026 through the University of Exeter Press! 
 

As lands burn, oceans boil, species go extinct and cultural conflicts multiply, Our Multispecies Futures urgently calls for a paradigm-shift in humanity’s relationship to life on Earth.

 

The book argues that the delusion of human exceptionalism fuels colonial and hierarchical relationships with our human, animal, plant, fungal, and microbial companions. It undertakes multi-scalar explorations of life ranging from vast oceanic currents down to intricate psychic mechanisms that fuel our personal fears, desires and fantasies to reveal both the damage of this delusion and the rewards of overcoming it. The book suggests that multispecies harm is amplified by the digital revolution, which has rapidly accelerated opportunities to control both human and nonhuman life for profit. It proposes the Cybercene as a new framework to study this moment, where digital ‘realities’ and representations are rapidly transforming identities and substituting the value of actual bodies and living habitats.

 

Rather than focusing on doomsday scenarios, the book invites readers to explore pragmatic alternative pathways for ecocultural care and kinship. It embarks on a global journey, mapping the entangled lives of diverse "natural and cultural critters"—from mini-foxes and mysterious underground fungal networks to seemingly-sentient chatbots and the American Bison. Through these stories, it suggests ways to "glitch" capture-and-control practices and care differently for our multispecies kin.

 

Accessible to a broad audience, Our Multispecies Futures serves as both an introduction to the young field of Multispecies Studies and a manual showcasing new interdisciplinary research methods like multispecies thick-mapping and naturalcultural discourse analysis. It offers a vital guide for reimagining a shared future.

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Once you read the book, you will also discover why there is a picture of a curious fox on the cover!