Postnatural

Postnatural refers to landscapes, ecologies, or beings shaped by human intervention to the point where the line between natural and artificial dissolves. Think of genetically modified organisms, engineered rivers, urban ecologies. The term resists nostalgia for a pure “nature” that no longer exists, if it ever did. It points to the reality that all environments are now touched by culture, technology, and design. Yet it can also hide responsibility, as if everything altered is simply “postnatural” without asking who altered it and why. The postnatural is not exception but condition: every site is already hybrid, already mediated. Since Nature is a cultural construct, we categorized it under 'Imaginaries & Discursive Sites.

/ Zarja Muršič

Scientific research into animal behaviour still rests on many deeply ingrained assumptions about what is deemed to be “natural” human behaviour. For example, men—males—are assumed by nature to be more dominant and aggressive than women—females. And if men are violent, then the violent behaviour of other male animals in the wild can supposedly be explained […]

/ Urška Škerl

Domesticated and genetically engineered organisms are usually overlooked by natural museums and institutions for cultural history. There is no space for artifacts such as dogs, chickens and corn. The Center for PostNatural History is the sequel to the natural history museum, and takes agriculture’s evolution as a starting point. CPNH focuses on the deliberate alterations […]

/ Urška Škerl

Giovanni Aloi is an author, curator, and creator with a PhD from Goldsmiths University, focusing on natural history in art representation. His work examines depictions of flora and fauna to uncover societal values and foster shifts in these through critical reflection. Through publishing, curating exhibitions, delivering talks, and editing Antennae: The Journal of Nature in […]

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