This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Kymberley Chu can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/viral-entanglements-in-malaysian-porcine-worlds/. About the post: A More-than-Human One Health approach encourages cooperation among humans and nonhumans in facilitating interspecies solidarity. Perhaps, we can start by imagining post-extractivist imaginaries beyond using a negative conceptual registry of post-apocalyptic worlds. Academic spaces have the intellectual and creative capacity to trace the life and death cycles of nonhuman animals beyond extractive narratives. As our worlds become more susceptible to pandemics, the porous demarcation between domesticated/wild and human/nonhuman reveals the fragility of life under capitalism. Content warning: This post contains photos of factory farming that viewers may find distressing.

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