
The planetary activities that spill out beyond the shape of any single form of life, full of uninvited faces, are what Sylvia Wynter calls the “necessary and indispensable preludes” to the emergence of our new self-awareness, to the development of new forms of life.

I am interested in this sense of the ordinary, ongoing strike. This humble strike—not necessarily modest but rather close to the ground—could involve a politics of refusal and boycott, where those terms could be understood not only as negatives, but also as holding space for a new international community, and thus connecting explicitly something already connected or entangled in practice.

In autopoiesis, there is no separation between what we do and the particular way in which the world appears to us.