Erin Charpentier and Travis Neel: With Who We Find Ourselves in Relation

We live in a world of weeds—a world of human ecological disturbance that stretches around the planet.

Weediness can be observed locally, wherever you are situated.

Weeds are organisms that are never fully integrated into capitalist designs.

Weeds are autorewilders—meaning that they are an autonomous nonhuman species that insert themselves into landscapes where they were previously absent—doing so in surprising and unexpected ways such that they may be considered out of place or invasive.

One is not born but rather becomes a weed.

*For more on the conditions of weediness, see Anna Tsing.