Com-Posting Experimental Futures: Pragmatists Making (Odd)Kin with New Materialists

Immanent obligations of response: articulating everyday response-abilities through care

“…Haraway (2008; speaks not only of epistemological response-ability but also about biologically informed ontological response-ability in 'sym-bio-genesis' and 'sym-poiesis', in the way beings are (trans)formed by many types of intra-active response to others -attraction, fusion, adaptation, cohabitation, etc. Response is, like care, ontologically ubiquitous as beings are always partnered 'all the way down', evolutionarily speaking, rendering each other capable (Haraway 2008, 31;Stengel 2019).…”

Touch Points: Educative Experiences in Multispecies Contact Zones

“…Dewey knew it then; Haraway knows it now." 27 Learning to listen and attend to unexpected others requires also that we take stock of the many contact zones where we already encounter such unexpected others, including other-than-humans, and thus have opportunities to be affected by them, hear their response and find ourselves response-able and responsible.…”

Transition, Action and Education: Redirecting Pragmatist Philosophy of Education

“…Considering such theoretical openings, we are particularly interested in how Stengel () has recently found ways to explicitly position transitionalist pragmatism within these contemporary trends by drawing on exemplary new materialist work by Haraway (). Stengel thereby offers an anti‐dualist and process‐centred vision of critical pragmatism and new materialism such that representational idioms can no longer claim privilege over affect and performance in governing action.…”

“…Stengel, in tracing a Spinozist line through both contemporary pragmatism and new materialism, effectively bridges the two bodies of thought in ways we find doubly productive. First, Stengel follows Haraway in advocating for a ‘“suspension of ontologies and epistemologies” in favor of “experimental natural histories’” (Stengel, quoting Haraway, , p. 88) . Second, Stengel brings to the fore the mattering of transactive relating to develop an account of agency that is inherently transactive.…”

“…Second, Stengel brings to the fore the mattering of transactive relating to develop an account of agency that is inherently transactive. Both of these aspects of Stengel's work appear to us to offer, in her phrase, ‘resources … for response‐able worlding together’ (, p. 20). They are also, we think, especially valuable when interpreted through the lens of an actionistic pragmatism.…”