Anna L. Tsing The Particular in the Planetary: Reimagining Cosmopolitanism Beyond the Human

Keynote Lecture of the Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City, April 8, 2021 This talk uses the recently released collaborative project Feral Atlas: The MorethanHuman Anthropocene to explore cosmopolitan assemblages that include beings other than humans. The atlas traces the planetary condition of the Anthropocene through the nondesigned effects of human infrastructures, which we call the feral. If we think of cities as patches and corridors of urban infrastructure, we then might ask: How do cities amass nonhumans How shall we sort out enemies and allies Using Feral Atlas field reports written by ecologists, historians, geographers, and anthropologists, I show how planetencompassing environmental phenomena are constituted through the feral dynamics of particular patches and corridors, including those that make up cities. Here human and nonhuman histories intertwine, offering new angles to address predicaments of narrative, representation, and scale. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsin