Sonder le Feral Atlas : enquêtes de terrain holographiques

Abstract

We are a group of young researchers in environmental humanities gathered under the label ‘Pirate Laboratory’ at the ENS Ulm. It is within this framework that we have taken a keen interest in the stimulating digital project: Feral Atlas. The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. In order to make the Feral Atlas visible and understandable, we collectively wrote a creative text, based on narrative entanglements. It would seem that the experience of digital ethnography proposed by the Feral Atlas is, by its very form and structure, a kind of response, a proposal of what ferality can be. We would like to approach this ferality by presenting our crossed field experiences on the Atlas, in a way that is as unconventional as the interface itself. The stake is thus both to make visible and to value, with critical reflexivity, the importance of the Atlas, by proposing a collective and creative method. These are not, however, reports, strictly speaking, but rather narratives-within, connected and partial. Following a holographic logic, i.e. proceeding by relational demultiplications, our approach thus proposes a plural field experience of the site, in an attempt to render an experience of the more-than-human anthropocene.