Drawing from Haraway’s animal relations (2008) and oddkin relations (2016) challenge humans to develop relationality and close kin-like relationships with the other; often the non-human other. Making kin with oddkin troubles antropocentric notions of importance and privilege. When thinking with oddkin relations scholars are asked to reconsider their responsibility toward the other, forms and types of kinships they establish, and how multispecies and companion species relations could be built. From this perspective humans become-with or they are not all; relationality with the oddkin is a requirement for futuristic thinking and responsibility. How might one engage with oddkin relations while also focusing on collective, speculative, relational composing of artistic methods.

REFERENCES

Haraway, D. (2008). When species meet. University of Minnesota Press.

Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.