Editorial

Abstract

Contemporary society is characterized for being endemically in a crisis that conveys several aspects of the very process of worlding. More than two years have passed since one of the most affective force shifted the very concept of worlding itself, that was the SARS-CO-2 pandemic. This pandemic is defined in this special issue as: A non-exceptional event indeed—the unfolding of entanglements—has been perceived as extraordinary—re-writing for instance, our routines, our productive system, our globalized capacity for mobility—only because we have never accounted for our entanglements and our “making-with” the alterities in the first place. (Daigle & Santoema, p. 91) As previous issues from this journal have analyzed already, it primordially meant that we adapted ourselves to new “techno-lifeworlds” as Christine Horn identifies in this issue. According to her, these techno-lifeworlds are “entanglements with communications media, where different types of technology become embedded in social practices and embodied routines” (p.31). The task that feminist new materialisms have, therefore, is to analyze which are the technological modes that are presented and how are social practices are modified by these and modifying these very “modalities” (Colman, 2019).