The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy
Autor Manuela Zechneren Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mai 2026
As myths of progress and modernization collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we develop supportive communities that can live in harmony with the environment?
This book weaves stories, proposals, and analyses around a key domain of living reproduction in crisis: agriculture. Looking at peasant, indigenous, and transecofeminist practices, it formulates another plot on how we want to sustain life collectively—beyond progress, plantation, and patriarchy.
Recovering and repurposing old and new technologies, and breaking down the division between rural and urban, the ground is made fertile for growing other futures. Alongside writers like Ursula Le Guin and Octavia Butler, this work of radical political theory raises critical questions about technology and storytelling, as matters of care and community.
This book weaves stories, proposals, and analyses around a key domain of living reproduction in crisis: agriculture. Looking at peasant, indigenous, and transecofeminist practices, it formulates another plot on how we want to sustain life collectively—beyond progress, plantation, and patriarchy.
Recovering and repurposing old and new technologies, and breaking down the division between rural and urban, the ground is made fertile for growing other futures. Alongside writers like Ursula Le Guin and Octavia Butler, this work of radical political theory raises critical questions about technology and storytelling, as matters of care and community.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780745352077
ISBN-10: 0745352073
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
ISBN-10: 0745352073
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Recenzii
'Sylvia Wynter called the plots given to enslaved Africans in the Caribbean a source of cultural guerrilla resistance to the plantation system. Zechner’s work is another such source. Drawing on plot resistances amongst peasant communities from Europe to Latin America, she has written a guerrilla handbook indispensable in these times. With her as our guide, we can put out the fire and start some of our own'
Stefano Harney, Professor of Transversal Aesthetics, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, co-author of All Incomplete
'With charming prose, and built upon a solid basis of militant knowledge, this book asks the right questions at the right moment in the history of modern agriculture and land struggles. It will nourish the heart and mind of anyone who longs for 'earthcare transitioning''
Stefania Barca, author of Workers of the Earth
'Zechner’s invitation is as tempting as it is prescient as her book masterfully recounts and grounds her calling in a plethora of peasant and indigenous struggles around the world. As a writer and an organizer, Zechner does not shy away from the gargantuan task at hand. We invite our partners, sister organizations, comrades, peasants, agricultural workers, social movements and trade unionists to read, engage and disseminate Zechner’s book so that all workers of this earth can strategize, organize and operationalize what an earthcare transitioning could look like in the near future'
A Growing Culture
'Finally, a new entire book on earthcare! In times of ongoing ecocide and genocide, this combative manifesto offers a unique, contemporary (trans)ecofeminist analysis grounded in the author’s long-standing social movement knowledge and experience. It champions the power of earthcare by truly thinking about transition from the resistant lands and fields in a class-sensitive and intersectional way'
Nadine Gerner and Lina Hansen, authors of Ökofeminismus
'At a time when fear and fascism are on the rise, we need books like this to remind us that other worlds are possible, grounded in care, solidarity and abundance. And as Zechner shows us, these worlds are not only possible, they are being made and fought for all over the place'
Patrick Bresnihan, author of From the Bog to the Cloud
'How do we feed ourselves? In this book the desire of ecological reparation and social justice meets the agroecological plot. Starting from the struggles for earthcaring agriculture, with their significant allies, Manuela Zechner invites us to think what autonomy as interdependence might mean'
Andrea Ghelfi, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence
Stefano Harney, Professor of Transversal Aesthetics, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, co-author of All Incomplete
'With charming prose, and built upon a solid basis of militant knowledge, this book asks the right questions at the right moment in the history of modern agriculture and land struggles. It will nourish the heart and mind of anyone who longs for 'earthcare transitioning''
Stefania Barca, author of Workers of the Earth
'Zechner’s invitation is as tempting as it is prescient as her book masterfully recounts and grounds her calling in a plethora of peasant and indigenous struggles around the world. As a writer and an organizer, Zechner does not shy away from the gargantuan task at hand. We invite our partners, sister organizations, comrades, peasants, agricultural workers, social movements and trade unionists to read, engage and disseminate Zechner’s book so that all workers of this earth can strategize, organize and operationalize what an earthcare transitioning could look like in the near future'
A Growing Culture
'Finally, a new entire book on earthcare! In times of ongoing ecocide and genocide, this combative manifesto offers a unique, contemporary (trans)ecofeminist analysis grounded in the author’s long-standing social movement knowledge and experience. It champions the power of earthcare by truly thinking about transition from the resistant lands and fields in a class-sensitive and intersectional way'
Nadine Gerner and Lina Hansen, authors of Ökofeminismus
'At a time when fear and fascism are on the rise, we need books like this to remind us that other worlds are possible, grounded in care, solidarity and abundance. And as Zechner shows us, these worlds are not only possible, they are being made and fought for all over the place'
Patrick Bresnihan, author of From the Bog to the Cloud
'How do we feed ourselves? In this book the desire of ecological reparation and social justice meets the agroecological plot. Starting from the struggles for earthcaring agriculture, with their significant allies, Manuela Zechner invites us to think what autonomy as interdependence might mean'
Andrea Ghelfi, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence
Notă biografică
Manuela Zechner is a researcher, educator and organiser. She co-founded the Common Ecologies school, produces the Earthcare Fieldcast and is affiliated with the Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking at Copenhagen University.
Cuprins
Part I: Introduction
1. The Plot is on Fire
2. About This Book
3. The Axis Broke: Learning to Transform and Transition
Part II: RECLAIMING THE PLOT: TO CARE AS WE’D LIKE TO
4. To Care as We’d Like to?
5. Socioecological crisis and our impasse of care
6. Women* and the Playful Subversion of Community
7. Earthcare Manifesto
8. Care is Counterprepping
9. Counterplanning for Connectedness
10. Labours beyond Modernization
11. More-than-Work Manifesto
Part III: REBELLIOUS PLOTS: EARTHCARE AND THE RUINS OF MODERNIZATION
12. Dysphoria Latifundia
13. Becoming Rural-Urban Multitudes
14. Earthcare Trancestries
15. Cultivating Imaginaries of Agriculture
16. Peasant Stubbornness and the Politics of Tractors
17. Meat: Rural-Urban Class Tresspass
18. Meat: Necropolitics
19. Meat: Deathcare
20. Teleologies of Transformation
22. Plots and Pluriverses
Part IV. AFTER THE TECHNOPATRIARCHAL PLOT: BROKEN SOVEREIGN, BASTARD ALLIANCES
23. Digitalization, New Cycles of Accumulation and Exhaustion
24. Cracks in the Liberal Script
25. Who Said We Needed This?
26. Plotting against Tech Necropolitics
27. That Future: Remember?
28. Earthcare Tech Manifesto
29. Technopolitics versus Technoteleology
30. The Banality of Automation
31. Losing It (a Smartphone)
PART V: CONCLUSION
Earthcare Transitioning
Postface: Calling Back
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
1. The Plot is on Fire
2. About This Book
3. The Axis Broke: Learning to Transform and Transition
Part II: RECLAIMING THE PLOT: TO CARE AS WE’D LIKE TO
4. To Care as We’d Like to?
5. Socioecological crisis and our impasse of care
6. Women* and the Playful Subversion of Community
7. Earthcare Manifesto
8. Care is Counterprepping
9. Counterplanning for Connectedness
10. Labours beyond Modernization
11. More-than-Work Manifesto
Part III: REBELLIOUS PLOTS: EARTHCARE AND THE RUINS OF MODERNIZATION
12. Dysphoria Latifundia
13. Becoming Rural-Urban Multitudes
14. Earthcare Trancestries
15. Cultivating Imaginaries of Agriculture
16. Peasant Stubbornness and the Politics of Tractors
17. Meat: Rural-Urban Class Tresspass
18. Meat: Necropolitics
19. Meat: Deathcare
20. Teleologies of Transformation
22. Plots and Pluriverses
Part IV. AFTER THE TECHNOPATRIARCHAL PLOT: BROKEN SOVEREIGN, BASTARD ALLIANCES
23. Digitalization, New Cycles of Accumulation and Exhaustion
24. Cracks in the Liberal Script
25. Who Said We Needed This?
26. Plotting against Tech Necropolitics
27. That Future: Remember?
28. Earthcare Tech Manifesto
29. Technopolitics versus Technoteleology
30. The Banality of Automation
31. Losing It (a Smartphone)
PART V: CONCLUSION
Earthcare Transitioning
Postface: Calling Back
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Descriere
A guide to building caring communities in a world on fire