Rather than continuing to allow our traditional assumptions about the separation of humans and nature to shape our relations to nonhuman world, imagining the human in new ways makes possible new forms of relations with the earth. Sympathy with the nonhuman world acknowledges that human capacities are constituted by nonhuman materials and affects that do not respect the boundaries that tend to frame our thinking.
Is there a way to activate a similar process, but in terms of a natural healing of the earth and a social transformation of our relations to the earth? In considering this question, I argue that Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concepts of becoming and sympathy offer a way of thinking human relations with earth others that could generate ethical and political responses to ecological change where the more than human world is considered as a co-participant and collaborator in human action and a subject to whom justice is owed. His project activates a reflection on human life and social relations that fosters social healing and transformation. This paper explores Robert Waters’ art project uncover RECOVER in terms of this problem. As such, a powerful force in environmental discourse sees this problem as intractable and sees ecological change as a problem to be solved and the future of the earth as something to be managed. Such thinking, however, frequently comes up against an inability to conceive of the more than human world as something towards which we can empathize or sympathize or to which we owe justice.
Amidst increasing concerns about harmful ecological change brought about by human actions towards the earth, environmental thinkers and activists attempt to envision human relations with the earth in new ways.
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