A reply to ‘It matters what designs design designs: speculation on multispecies worlds’, by Michelle Westerlaken

Introduction to Special Issue: Staying with Speculation: Natures, Futures, Politics

“…Ursula Le Guin (1986) put it in a more accessible way using the figure of a 'carrier bag'. Alongside the conversations of this journal, the carrier bag was used by Christine Mortimer (Mortimer, 2021) and Anne Galloway (2021) to figure out the transductive relations of past, presents, and futures, realities and imaginations, memories and anticipations. In this bag or milieu, we are becoming-with-others, we are entangled and, as Bronislaw Szerszynski (2021) proposes, imPLIcated, comPLIcated, and in play.…”