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Experimental Futures
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
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Duke University Press
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7378-0
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
The Camille Stories: Children of Compost
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Published:August 2016
Chapter 8 is an invitation to a collective speculative fabulation that follows five generations of a symbiogenetic join of a human child and monarch butterflies along the lines and nodes of these insects’ migrations between Mexico and the United States and Canada. These lines trace socialities and materialities crucial to living and dying with critters on the edge of disappearance so that they might go on. Committed to nurturing capacities to respond and cultivating ways to render each other capable, the Communities of Compost appeared in the early twenty-first century on ruined lands all over the world. These communities committed...
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