Pinko, After Accountability: A Critical Genealogy (Haymarket Books, 2025), 27.
The animal trials that took place from the Middle Ages until the eighteenth century can be understood as the twilight period of more entangled relations between humans and animals, which were perceived as collaborators with humans in production as well as occasional perpetrators of wrongdoing. See Leigh Claire La Barge, “Animals,” in Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary, ed. Torsten Andreasen et al. (Goldsmiths Press, 2024).
Pinko, After Accountability, 207.
Roberto Esposito, Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), 50.
Escobar Kelly, “Escobar Kelly: Interview,” in After Accountability, 103. “People really forget to even have a shred of empathy for someone, forget about whether or not it happened, whether or not they’re quote unquote ‘guilty,’ for someone who is in the crosshairs of being called out, period. It fucking sucks. And when you sit down with multiple of those people every month, it starts to become really clear. Like, if my end goal is you taking accountability, we gotta back all the way up.”
Oxford English Dictionary. Emphasis added.
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press, 2016).
Jennifer Gabrys, “Sensing a Planet on Fire and Listening with Forests,” in Common Sensing: CRA#3 ed. Ricardo Badano et al. (Spector Books, 2025).
Cited in Carey Wolfe, Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (University of Chicago Press, 2012), 65.
Cited in Wolfe, Before the Law, 65.
Wolfe, Before the Law, 66.
“Black(ened)” means to express “the confluence of animality and racialization” as a tool to secure colonial white supremacy. Jackson aims not to redraw the lines of humanity in order to include those who were formerly denied it, but to open it to its trans-special belonging in order to transmogrify our ontological categories and the politics they produce. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (NYU Press, 2020).
This formulation was used in the symposium abstract for “Finite Future: Accountability and Sanctuaries” at the Art Hub, Copenhagen in June 2025, in which I participated. See →.
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives: Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019), 222.
Article 71 of the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, October 20, 2008 →.
Cited in Norrie Huddle, “World’s First Successful ‘Rights of Nature’ Lawsuit,” Kosmos, Fall–Winter 2013 →.
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Oxford University Press, 1949), 214.
Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible (Continuum, 2004), 25.
Rancière, Politics of Aesthetics, 32.
Mark Fisher. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Zer0 Books, 2009), 22.
See →.
Cited in Heather Davis “The Breathing Land: On Questions of Climate Change and Settler Colonialism,” in Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change, ed. T. J. Demos et al. (Routledge, 2021), 211.
Davis, “Breathing Land,” 211.
Andreas Weber, Enlivenment: Towards a Poetics for the Anthropocene (MIT Press, 2019), 85.
Andreas Weber, Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014), 89.
Pil and Galia Kollectiv’s Fossils was performed at Chemist Gallery, May–June 2025. This excerpt was sent to the author by the artists in a private correspondence.
Jason Hickel, “What Does Degrowth Mean? A Few Points of Clarification,” Globalizations 18, no. 7 (2021).
