A Speculative Lexicon of Entanglement

This intervention offers a speculative lexicon to help students and scholars of global politics think critically creatively about entanglement. It is neither definitive nor complete, but instead some possible points entry into contested field. mobilises two particular claims: (1) that entanglement always involves both human non-human entities; (2) emergent in process. As whole, this intended us sense the moment when entanglements intensify ways render them stable; attune these durabilities order analyse their constitutive logics inclusion/exclusion; acknowledge our own irrevocable logics; care for those bodies, lifeworlds, species habitats are targeted or abandoned by such craft mutual projects disrupt, disaggregate re-route logics. Because emerging, dissipating reconvening, practice navigating open terrain disorienting often frustrating. We may desire final destination where solidify horizons magically appear, giving reproduces violence enclosure. offered as way keep political so we can collectively ensure contestation remains possibility.