The Anthropocene enjoins immediate action to address the increasingly viable prospects of an end to life on the planet. However, agency is popularly framed as a force domiciled within individuals and human collectives—within traditional, liberal notions of the isolated self. When we shift our gaze from looking at things so squarely, so straightforwardly, and begin to deploy peri-feral/autistic visions of migrant bodies and porous boundaries, then agency becomes less individuated and more ecological and territorial.
