Abstract: Drawing on the Øens Have workshop, a performative experiment in multispecies sense-making, this article argues that environmental political theory remains limited by a sociocentric conception of representation that excludes nonhumans as agents of political articulation. Rather than merely extending human representation to other species, the article proposes a transfiguration of representation itself, recognizing that representative claims already emerge across species lines. From this perspective, the Øens Have experiment shows how representation might become a multispecies practice of mutual attunement—an ecocentric reorientation that not only widens the field of representation but transforms its ground, inviting us to imagine politics otherwise.
Lars Tønder (Thu,) studied this question.