Tag: Companion Species
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Do Cows Appreciate Poetry? And Other Musings On Our Bovine Friends
in FieldnotesIn these poetic fieldnotes, Mia Werger reflects on befriending feedlot cattle, surviving our broken food system, living under constraint, and dreaming of freedom.
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Rhizomatic Poetics for Our Plant Companions
in PoetryHow do we represent the complexity of plant companionship in a language marred by dualism? Jerald Lim uses twin cinema poetry.
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Troubling Dualisms with the God in the Aquarium
in EssaysGod, pet, and research subject, axolotls transgress Western dualisms. Alex Ventimilla explores what these creatures tell us about science, companionship, and life in the Anthropocene.
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Carp as Villains and Victims
in EssaysTeri Harman considers resilience, fishy companionship, and the culpability of “invasive” carp in Utah Lake. Are carp villains or victims?
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A Cage of One’s Own? On Interspecies Captive-ation
in EssaysUsing the concept of captivation, Quinn Georgic unpacks human-animal interspecies relations by looking closely at mutual power that binds humans and primates together—from HBO’s CHIMP CRAZY to fieldwork with lemurs.
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Kelp Can Help Build More Just Futures
in EssaysLydia Lapporte traces how the project of kelp recovery in the Pacific Ocean connects to the mission of decarceration. Relational companionship and abolition ecologies can be useful for both kelp and incarcerated people.
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Consensual AI? A Call for Indigenous-Led Caribou Conservation
in EssaysGenevieve Pfeiffer explores human-caribou entanglements and how Indigenous relationships with them could guide future conservation efforts—avoiding past disasters like the James Bay Project.
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My Strange Kinship with a Tick
in EssaysWhat messages are shared through a tick bite? Maxime Fecteau explores his experience with Lyme disease, revealing how an undesired relationship with ticks nonetheless has profound impact on his way of seeing ecological degradation, multispecies kinship, and the Anthropocene.
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Beastly Consent and Relationships Beyond Boundaries
in EssaysVita Sleigh investigates the connections between animal consent, interspecies erotics, and the (at times violent) power differentials that characterize commonly experienced relationships with animals. How can we attend to the otherness of creatures and hold our attractions to them with care?
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Swampy Relations & Imperfect Restoration
in EssaysThere’s a sinking swamp in the middle of Manhattan that has kept a host of species safe for millennia. Nat Xu uses the space and their work in it to reflect on Indigenous stewardship, more-than-human precarity, and restorative conservation as an imperfect practice.