Worm Politics

In Chapter 6, the author discusses worm politics, both in order to further clarify the borders of the political, and in order to show the variety of possible relations with non-human animals. The chapter contrasts new materialist approaches to non-humans with political animal philosophy, and also discusses the relation between knowledge and power around the example of earthworms as laboratory animals. The author then turns to new forms of interacting with earthworms, first by discussing eating as relating and then by reviewing proposals to view them as sovereign communities, or neighbors. The chapter ends by suggesting that we should respect earthworms and start regarding them differently. Food can be a starting point in establishing new relations.

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