Performing posthumanist economies in the Anthropocene

This chapter sets out to offer some thinking tools for extending the diverse economies project in response to climate change. I begin by reviewing some of the ways in which diverse economies work currently engages with the more-than-human world. To do so I frame the diverse economies project as posthumanist. Michael Hardt describes this "new ontology of the human" as one in which "the body's power to act corresponds to its sensitivity to other bodies" and "the mind's power to think corresponds to its receptivity to external ideas" (2007, x). With this in mind, in the remaining discussion I seek to develop our sensitivity to the bodies of earth others by extending the conversation between community economies and another, external, set of ideas developed in ecological humanities.