This unusually associative anthropologist has remained an indispensable guide to where we, as humans on Earth, find ourselves now. And as she points out in her most recent book, Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene (2024), coauthored with her longtime Feral Atlas research group collaborators Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou, ‘you cannot consider place in the Anthropocene without attuning to more-than-human histories’. The book, which has evolved from the Feral Atlas online project, considers (as has come to be expected from the UC Santa Cruz professor), the unexpected outcomes and responsibilities of humanity’s methods of populating and extracting from the planet – as told through the nonhuman presence of, for example, beetles, water hyacinths and dry rot fungus. While this year saw publication of a new edition of her 2004 book Friction, using forest fires in Indonesia to reflect on globalisation, her more recent articles and talks have focused on concrete and how its use in the built environment precipitates floods. As climates continue to shift, artists continue to look to Tsing to help map the new terrain.