What if we addressed the Anthropocene as a problem of communication?
What if we tried to actively translate the needs and experiences of non-humans into human language? How to give voice to plants, animals, fungi or places? We read speculative fiction and theory; we enter cringy territories of anthropomorphism; we revive ecofeminist discussions of making kin with animals. We think, read and write together to rehearse non-human speech acts and “speaking nearby” others.

Formers are short, intuitive exercises that we’ll develop collectively, quickly, and alone. They ask where a work begins and ends. They are melodic, on brand, and focused on the role presentation plays in the construction of meaning. Formers are gestures, disappearing acts, and palimpsests. They are corrupt objects obsessed with their own time.

We breathe in. We breathe out. We will read the book »Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation« by Silvia Federici together.
We breathe in. We breathe out.