... potential in the contemporary moment through the growing field of biomimicry. I show how mimesis promises a way toward a future free from human hubris and ecological catastrophe—and a way out of the conditions that have created the Anthropocene. I explore how this works in biomimetics, with a detailed look...

...—in the Anthropocene. She has authored several articles on how developing fields like biomimicry and biotechnology are making nonhuman life matter—culturally, economically, and politically—in new ways. She is working on a book manuscript titled “Working Life: Biomimesis and the Politics of Biological...

... life but also “the whole of nature” (Marx and Engels 1978: 76). The fields of biosensing, biomimicry, and synthetic biology seem to bear this out. Their products, like Harvard’s plants, are “natural materials” transformed into organs of “human participation in nature” (Marx 1993). But while...