本书向读者介绍了涉及多学科的比利时艺术家马腾•范登•爱德，对他过去20年的作品进行了概述。

比利时艺术家Maarten Vanden Eynde（生于1977年）的事业以实践为基础，涵盖了社会、经济、环境和人类学的各个角度。他的作品探讨了我们这个时代最重要的一些主题，从采掘主义、生态学、殖民主义到殖民主义的后遗症。本书被定位为关于人类历史的另类百科全书，研究了我们对地球的影响。

Bringing together works from the past 20 years, this book introduces readers to multidisciplinary Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde

Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde (b. 1977) has established a research-based practice, which spans diverse social, economic, environmental, and anthropological perspectives. His work covers some of the most important subjects of our time from extractionism, ecology, and colonialism to the after-effects of colonialism. The book is built up as an alternative encyclopaedia of the history of human kind, investigating our influence on planet Earth. It proposes an industrial and post-industrial archaeology of the future, mapping out a speculative “future-fiction” of our evolutionary traces, and offers a survey of Vanden Eynde’s work from the past two decades, including Plastic Reef, a massive sculpture made from plastic debris the artist has harvested from all the world’s oceans.