Disentangling the machinic architectures of planetary food production, It points to other ways of worldbuilding and introduces the Urban Symbiome—a proposed vision for a future based on an ethic of kinship, degrowth, and circular thinking.

“Industrial agriculture uses 75 percent of farmland and 70 percent of freshwater use, to feed 30 percent of the world’s population (Mooney and Blassey, 2018). This generates more greenhouse gases than any other human activity on the planet. Yet most of the world is fed by small farms that use only 25 percent of its land (Maass Wolfenson, 2013; FAO, 2014). Large swaths of the planet’s surface are now devoted to growing food that does not end up in human stomachs, but instead for livestock.”