Composite Bodies in Times of Revolt. On Socio-Material Assemblies in Social Uprisings

The objectivesObjectobjectives of this text are twofold. Firstly, it proposes an analysis of the processes of organic compostCompost and their links to the human in order to illustrate how the contemporary landscape calls into question habitual conceptions of popular mobilization and the social using a renewed understanding of the relationshipRelationsrelationships between human and non-human phenomenaPhenomenaphenomena, non-human and of the diverse material forces that collide through processes of embodiment or association. The notionNotion of compostCompost here is an epistemological and political proposal related to compositional modesModes of thought around an ecology of practices. The second objective is to present the ChileanChilean social uprising of October 2019 by discussing bodies as composites. Here, we seek to address the political problem from a perspective that highlights the embodiment processesEmbodimentembodiment processes involved in the revoltRevolt and how it challenges the logicLogic of order imposed by the anthropocentric neoliberal rationale. In order to achieve the two objectivesObjectobjectives, we consider how bodies are composed through forces which, in their multiple trajectoriesTrajectories and contingent encounters, alter the temporalities of the urban space, and we explore the mesh of human and non-human elements that shape the landscape of revoltRevolt as an expression of the need to recover its intensive and relational potential through mobilization. “This dance is the bomb.” [Street art by Caiozzama, Chile, 2014]. The code of this chapter is 01110011 01100101 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01010000 01100011.