In Dialogue with More-Than-Human Wor(l)ds: Collaborative Kinship and Relationality in Digital Publishing

Animated Wor(l)ds is a multimedia born-digital project with roots in relational practices that honor biocultural diversity and multispecies flourishing. Our community is composed of scholars, artists, and activists who contribute a wide array of transdisciplinary and multisensory research-creation projects promoting care-full attunement with more-than-human wor(l)ds. Focusing on the developmental process of the project, we celebrate the vital network of relations animating our work and the multispecies ethics that permeates our editorial practice. By retracing the collaborative efforts occurring behind the scenes, we explore three interwoven areas to illustrate our experimental methodology: (1) developing an editorial process rooted in community care, (2) entering in dialogue with more-than-human persons, and (3) building a digital ecology. Ultimately, we draw attention to radical reciprocity to propose a counterexample that challenges established publishing models embedded within hierarchical organizational structures as well as the underlying anthropocentric logic that characterizes scholarly research and artistic production conducted within the humanities.