In this choral essay we, an assorted group of academics interested in inorganic life and matter, explore a mode of thinking and feeling with our objects of inquiry—chemicals, waste, cement, gas, and the “project” as a particular form of circulation and enactment of materials and things. To experiment with alternative modes of knowing, we went to Puchuncavi, the largest, oldest, and most polluting industrial compound in Chile, to encounter the inorganic through and with its inorganicness and to attend to the situated, historicized, and political composition of both our materials and our experiences. Thinking of this as a collective provocation, we do not rehearse a conventional argument. Its parts are connected but only partially. There is no dramatic arc but rather an attempt at composing an atmosphere through which our thought and feelings are invoked. We have made visible the authorship behind each of the stories recounted here to celebrate the multivocality of our collaboration and to rehearse a nonabstracted mode of attention to Puchuncavi and the inorganic forces and entities we encountered there. We connect our irritations and speculations with the Anthropocene precisely as a way of summoning the multiple violences, many of them of planetary reach, that have to be denounced when situating our knowledge practices in Puchuncavi. Thinking about the ethico-political challenges of research in territories that have been, and are being, transformed under the weighty history of contamination and that are lived in and lived with by generations of beings (human and otherwise), we call in our concluding remarks for an enhanced pedagogy of care born of our inherited pasts and of engagement, interest, and becoming as response-ability.

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无机物

在这篇合唱文章中，我们是一群对无机生命和物质感兴趣的学者，他们以我们的研究对象（化学，废物，水泥，天然气和“项目”作为一种特殊的流通形式）探索了一种思维和感觉的方式。以及材料和事物的制定。为了尝试其他的认知方式，我们去了智利最大，最古老，污染最严重的工业园区Puchuncavi，尝试通过无机及其无机性遇到无机物，并研究我们这两种环境的局限性，历史性和政治性材料和我们的经验。认为这是一种集体挑衅，我们不会排演传统论点。它的各个部分相连，但仅部分相连。没有戏剧性的弧度，而是试图营造一种气氛，通过这种气氛来唤起我们的思想和感觉。我们在这里重述了每个故事背后的作者身份，以庆祝我们合作的多元性，并排练对Puchuncavi以及我们在那里遇到的无机力量和实体的关注的抽象方式。我们将人类的烦恼和推测恰好与人类世联系起来，以此作为一种方式来召唤多种暴力，其中许多是行星范围的暴力，在我们将知识实践置于普琴查维时必须予以谴责。考虑到在污染的沉重历史下已经和正在改变的，世代相传的人类和其他人类所居住的领土上的研究在民族政治方面所面临的挑战，