Contents

List of Illustrations ix  

       Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. Playing String Figures with Companion Species 9

2. Tentacular Thinking 30

Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene 

3. Sympoiesis 58

Symbiogenesis and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble

4. Making Kin 99

Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, 

Chthulucene 

5. Awash in Urine 104

DES and Premarin in Multispecies Response-ability

6. Sowing Worlds 117

A Seed Bag for Terraforming with Earth Others

7. A Curious Practice 126

8. The Camille Stories 134

Children of Compost