Becoming-with. Multispecies recovery epidemic

Restoring refuge from the margins in a wounded world

Abstract

This article deals with affirmative politics that revolve around new ways of doing-with, of becoming-with, in the form of sympoiesis between sentient creatures that inhabit the margins of a wounded world. Thus, an interspecies relationship is experienced with a colony of five rescued rats with whom a bond has been established, generating spaces of coexistence, collective, colony and encounter, paying attention to that which connects a diversity of alternative bodies bruised, sexualised, naturalised and devalued by the dominant hegemonic tradition. In this way, new forms of relationality and affectivity are composed that can be translated as urgent means of revolution, transformation and recuperation that make affects an artistic practice of resistance and restoration of refuges for dissident othernesses.