Farming in the Ecological Condition

The ‘intrusions of Gaia’ interrupt any idea of historical progress, geocentric humanism, passive nature. As philosopher Michel Serres reminds us: ‘it no longer depends on us that everything depends on us’. This statement is not an invitation to inaction. On the contrary it seems to contain a call for action, an invitation to experiment within modes of living by undertaking actions without guarantee in the (new) ecological condition. Ecological justice has a long history in social movements action. For example, movements emerged around the idea of the commons refer to actively shared worlds that combat injustice that stems social enclosure: commons are about co-action, collective stewardship of material practices, self-organisation. But the social commons are not only about rules managing and sharing common resources, they also entail a multiplicity of practices of commoning that bring us to the field of processual, actively shared, more than human worlds.