'Plantationocene is a historical ‘de-soilization’ of the Earth. And it is striking how much analytical work is now needed to re-localise, to re-territorialise and re-earth, to ‘re- ground’, basically, practice. What is needed, I think, is an inversion of materialism.'

Bruno Latour et al., Anthropologists Are Talking – About Capitalism, Ecology, and Apocalypse

Long seen as a passive substrate and an inexhaustible resource. We are only beginning to understand the complexity of our soil. As Puig de la Bellacasa attests, soil is the infrastructure of life itself and like other forms of infrastructure, it only becomes more broadly visible when it starts to break down. Providing a habitat for a vast range of plants and animals, it is now rendered fragile by human activity.

'We need not just reseeding, but also re- inoculating with all the fermenting, fomenting, and nutrient-fixing associates that seeds need to thrive. Recuperation is still possible, but only
in multispecies alliance, across the killing divisions of nature, culture, and technology and of organism, language, and machine (...) Sowing worlds is about opening up the story of companion species to more of its relentless diversity and urgent trouble.'

Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: 117-118

The soil is a matrix of engagement that we live on, with and through. It is in a constant process of making and unmaking, worlding and unworlding. Soil conserves archaeological remains and traces of past climates and biology, and serves as a source of building and combustible materials, minerals and pigments. We are dependent on it for our sustenance and food, in death it is nourished. Long standing as a symbol for fertility, as the site that life springs from, a variety of civilizations and cultures have grown from it. Human activities have modified soil for millennia, however it has intensified considerably with growing populations and increased demand for crops which has led to the use of agrochemical fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides.

I want to live in communities of compost

“Everyone would be well slept, chaotic and loving hearted. And have all the time in the world to not kill, to love and be president. Everyone take your turn and dance, dance now.”

I want to live in America under Myles;