For a Cosmopolitics of Relation

The fact that everything is connected to the whole doesn’t necessarily make it possible to think about how the whole becomes a world or to think about the issues of equality and justice. Having the same “Creole” identity, recognising oneself as queer or as a human-animal, is not enough to make a world. In the same way, recognising oneself as a part of the mountain is not enough to prevent the exploitation of nature and non-humans. As necessary as these relational ontologies and aesthetics are, the world is the fruit of an acting together. Worldly-ecology requires a cosmopolitics of relation. How, at the end of colonisation and slavery, can a polis (a city) be established between humans and non-humans, even though not everyone will adopt the same aesthetics and ontologies?