Being the revolution, or, How to live in a “more-than-capitalist” world threatened with extinction

Much of J. K. Gibson-Graham’s work has been aimed at opening up ideas about what action is, both by broadening what is considered action (under the influence of feminist political imaginaries and strategies), and by refusing the old separation between theory and action. But the coming of the Anthropocene forced Julie and me to think more openly about what is the collective that acts. In this lecture I ask: what might it mean for a politics aimed at bringing other worlds into being to displace humans from the center of action and to see more-than-human elements as part of the collective that acts? The lecture proceeds with sections discussing (1) elements and limits of a feminist imaginary of possibility, (2) the synergies between a politics of building community economies and the political imaginary of actor-network theory, and (3) the materiality of emerging community economy assemblages.