Ecologies of Participation

Zayin Cabot is lecturer of philosophy and religion at California State University, East Bay.

• Preface: A Note on TerminologyIntroduction: Participatory Philosophia and our Planetary Predicament1. Decolonial Mutations2. Whitehead, Creativity, and Agential Functions3. A Participatory Raft4. Ecologizing Language: A Neo-Whorfian Agential Approach5. Agential Bricolage: A Neostructuralist Hunch6. Agential Participation: Toward Freedom and Concern7. Participatory Knowing, Ecologizing Ethics8. Mystics, Mutants, and Co-Authored Gods9. Shamanic Perspectivism and Comparative Method10. Talismanic Thinking as Comparative MethodConclusion: A Guest Protocol

This a book that is impossible to capture in some neat established academic sound-bite, mostly because its multiple claims are all quite impossible—impossible, that is, within our present Western and colonized ways of speaking, thinking, and being. If we can imagine ourselves outside or after that framework, we might say that the book, like its author, is a shaman, and a diviner, and a traveler among worlds, including future worlds. The vision of the human (and nonhuman) that emerges through these words and worlds is unabashedly global, comparative, moral, and magical. Here is a weird and wonderful book in which everything is alive and even the stones tell stories. Really.