Feral Collaborations: Writing With More-Than-Human Worlds

What would it mean to engage with more-than-human landscapes as collaborative writing partners? Through a collaborative process we explore this question, developing a practice of feral collaborations. Starting from Tsing et al.’s (2024) ‘patchy Anthropocene’, the inquiry leads us through four landscapes across Europe as we consider embodied, relational co-creation that unfolds between human and more-than-human agencies. Piling these patches in collaborative writing comprises another feral landscape, in which concepts, technologies, schedules, and commitments become feral actors themselves. Our ongoing collaboration illuminates themes across our patches that lead us to engage our own research in new ways. Heterogeneous temporalities, ruptures, fragility, and endurance emerge as characteristics of feral collaborations. A practice of care for the other and the common becomes important in each landscape and in our collaborative process.