A Post-Praxeological Approach to Multispecies Assemblages. The Case of Human-Plant Interactions at a Farm

Abstract This article develops a post-praxeological approach to multispecies assemblages through a video-based study of human-plant interaction on a regenerative farm. Combining ethnomethodology and conversation analysis with process philosophy and assemblage theory, the paper examines how planting cucumbers emerges as a distributed accomplishment among humans, plants, soil organisms, tools, plastic infrastructures, weather conditions, and a companion dog, among other elements. The study shows how agency is not located in individual actors but distributed across heterogeneous participants. By integrating a flat ontological stance with a first-person ethnographic account and fine-grained multimodal analysis of transcribed segments, the article offers a methodological contribution to multispecies and interactional research, demonstrating how non-human participation can be rendered empirically observable without resorting to abstract generalisation or critical accounts of multispecies, posthuman justice.