An opening gesture, such as a futuring, perhaps concealed beneath a discursive veil of progress, will always be haunted by a past. Time,  in its essence, eludes any form of linearity, forever enmeshed between nows and thens in the continuous becoming of something else.

The climate undergoes radical changes, a hinge zone in time-space, in which our interior and exterior landscapes, local biota, and agricultural crops reconfigure and adapt to new realities: extreme temperatures, drought, flooding, wildfires.

Agricultural industrialization, alongside its many innovations, carries multiple thick materializations of the past. Land dispossessions, privatization, eutrophication, and plantations are meeting the dizzy pollinating bee. Food systems cannot be disentangled from the attack on life itself. The sixth mass extinction – yes, we are experiencing it, and it carries a distinct sound and smell, strangely familiar.   Death glooms the dining table; the disappearance of a species is a disappearance of the world, and within it, it's possible future variability. Within a few generations we are undoing million of years of evolutionary heritage.  

As climate changes, so does movement, both human and non-human. Terra mobilis, the moving earth is a norm rather than an exception. The mobility of environments, continents, waste, and all living beings is a certain prerogative, which likewise renders the familiar strange, yet liquifies all dreams of enclosure. Wild seeds will blow with the wind.

A new hybrid nature is emerging, bringing forth unknown possibilities and closures. This nature spans from microplastics to pollinating machines, raising questions of what occurs when we integrate technologies intimately with the lives of others (both non-humans and humans) and how we figure through the convergences of techno-euphoria.

Despite the naming of our current geological epoch, the human is being dispossessed as the center of it all. This shift not only makes room for thinking with  more-than-human agencies but also potentially reforms or rekindles relations of love between species and matters.   

Eating will play a central role navigating these changes, in nurturing earth in its living entirety; matters, animal, plants, humans. But what does the world eat?