Plot is on Fire

Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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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:192 x 26 x 127 mm
Vikt:275 g
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.

Recensioner i media

'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

Part I: Introduction1. The Plot is on Fire2. About This Book3. The Axis Broke: Learning to Transform and TransitionPart II: RECLAIMING THE PLOT: TO CARE AS WE’D LIKE TO4. To Care as We’d Like to?5. Socioecological crisis and our impasse of care6. Women* and the Playful Subversion of Community7. Earthcare Manifesto8. Care is Counterprepping9. Counterplanning for Connectedness10. Labours beyond Modernization11. More-than-Work ManifestoPart III: REBELLIOUS PLOTS: EARTHCARE AND THE RUINS OF MODERNIZATION12. Dysphoria Latifundia13. Becoming Rural-Urban Multitudes14. Earthcare Trancestries15. Cultivating Imaginaries of Agriculture16. Peasant Stubbornness and the Politics of Tractors17. Meat: Rural-Urban Class Tresspass18. Meat: Necropolitics19. Meat: Deathcare20. Teleologies of Transformation22. Plots and PluriversesPart IV. AFTER THE TECHNOPATRIARCHAL PLOT: BROKEN SOVEREIGN, BASTARD ALLIANCES23. Digitalization, New Cycles of Accumulation and Exhaustion24. Cracks in the Liberal Script25. Who Said We Needed This?26. Plotting against Tech Necropolitics27. That Future: Remember?28. Earthcare Tech Manifesto29. Technopolitics versus Technoteleology30. The Banality of Automation31. Losing It (a Smartphone)PART V: CONCLUSIONEarthcare TransitioningPostface: Calling BackAcknowledgementsBibliography