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Plot is on Fire

Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy

AvManuela Zechner

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

205 kr

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Beskrivning

As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we strengthen other plots—in community, practice and struggle? How do we come together as movements for earthcare?This book weaves stories, proposals, and analyses around a key domain of living reproduction in crisis: agriculture. Looking at peasant, indigenous, and transecofeminist practices, it formulates another plot on how we want to sustain life collectively—beyond progress, plantation, and patriarchy.Recovering and repurposing old and new technologies, and breaking down the division between rural and urban, the ground is made fertile for growing other futures. Alongside writers like Ursula Le Guin and Octavia Butler, this work of radical political theory raises critical questions about technology and storytelling, as matters of care and community.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-20
Mått:129 x 198 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745352077

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Manuela Zechner is a researcher, educator and organiser. She co-founded the Common Ecologies school, produces the Earthcare Fieldcast and is affiliated with the Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking at Copenhagen University.

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'Sylvia Wynter called the plots given to enslaved Africans in the Caribbean a source of cultural guerrilla resistance to the plantation system. Zechner’s work is another such source. Drawing on plot resistances amongst peasant communities from Europe to Latin America, she has written a guerrilla handbook indispensable in these times. With her as our guide, we can put out the fire and start some of our own'

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart I: Enter Into Crisis1. The axis broke apart / in the historical drift2. Dead ends & endings of modern binarisms3. Connective tissues and technologiesPart II: To Care As We'd Like To4. Climate, Covid, Class: War and Care5. Socioecological crisis and our impasse of care6. Commoning Vulnerability: Radical Politics of Earthcare7. Earthcare Manifesto8. Counterplanning Safety-Security9. Within, Against and Beyond the Wage10. Work ManifestoPart III: Earthcare and the Ruins of Progress11. Rural-Urban Multitudes and More-Than-Urban Worlds12. Reclaiming Earthcare Ancestry13. Irma and Nil - A Tale of Two Elders14. Earthcare Labour and Struggles15. Peasant Stubbornness and the Politics of Tractors16. Meat: A Tale of Rural-Urban Class Tresspass17. Teleologies of TransformationPart IV. Broken Sovereign, Cosymbiont Technologies18. Losing it (Liberalism)19. Toxic Binaries vs. Bastard Alliances20. Tech Necropolitics21. Autological Exhaustion: Letter to the Fatigued22. The Banality of Automation: AI Antifesto23. Earthcare Tech and Ecofeminist-Decolonial HackingConclusion: Transition