Plot is on Fire

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.

• Part I: Introduction1. The Plot is on Fire2. About This Book3. The Axis Broke: Learning to Transform and TransitionPart II: RECLAIMING THE PLOT: TO CARE AS WE’D LIKE TO4. To Care as We’d Like to?5. Socioecological crisis and our impasse of care6. Women* and the Playful Subversion of Community7. Earthcare Manifesto8. Care is Counterprepping9. Counterplanning for Connectedness10. Labours beyond Modernization11. More-than-Work ManifestoPart III: REBELLIOUS PLOTS: EARTHCARE AND THE RUINS OF MODERNIZATION12. Dysphoria Latifundia13. Becoming Rural-Urban Multitudes14. Earthcare Trancestries15. Cultivating Imaginaries of Agriculture16. Peasant Stubbornness and the Politics of Tractors17. Meat: Rural-Urban Class Tresspass18. Meat: Necropolitics19. Meat: Deathcare20. Teleologies of Transformation22. Plots and PluriversesPart IV. AFTER THE TECHNOPATRIARCHAL PLOT: BROKEN SOVEREIGN, BASTARD ALLIANCES23. Digitalization, New Cycles of Accumulation and Exhaustion24. Cracks in the Liberal Script25. Who Said We Needed This?26. Plotting against Tech Necropolitics27. That Future: Remember?28. Earthcare Tech Manifesto29. Technopolitics versus Technoteleology30. The Banality of Automation31. Losing It (a Smartphone)PART V: CONCLUSIONEarthcare TransitioningPostface: Calling BackAcknowledgementsBibliography

'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'