Jordi Vivaldi

Domesticity is generally associated with a human environment, a civilised space that, by conventionally distinguishing itself from nature, is frequently presented as being safe, ordered, intimate, controlled, private, predictable, etc. The arrival and generalization of the Anthropocene has challenged the strict binarism of these categories, claiming for multispecies forms of cohabitation that are increasingly setting foot in our home. Within this context, and rather than dismantling or purifying the domestic, we want to investigate how, in light of these transformations, home-making is or might be recodified into hybrid forms of domesticity, opening more lines of flight, reactivating lost paths or pointing to novel challenges concerning the praxis of living well together at home.

To this end, this topical issue questions how the discourse, design and practice of the domestic is or might be philosophically articulated concerning the numerous agencies coexisting with us in the household, actively considering their biologic, geological or technological layers. We aim thus to both capture and invigorate the ontological, epistemological, aesthetical, political and ethical dimensions of these hybrid domesticities, welcoming for this transversal endeavour contributions coming from any philosophical school or courant. 

Within this framework, we invite contributions that address, among other topics:

• Multispecies forms of domesticity and their philosophical implications along history.
• The ontological dimensions of the home in the age of the Anthropocene
• Philosophical referents regarding the architectural design of hybrid domesticities.
• Labour and domesticity in post-pandemic times: a political reading.
• Domesticity and inter-animality today: an ethical commitment. 
• Urban domesticity: the home as a geopolitical space 
• Augmented reality and remote domesticity: a new epistemology of home-making
• Feminist approaches to non-domesticating domesticities
• Agonistic domesticity: conflict over consensus in democratic home-making
• Pleasure and aesthetics within a multispecies household.
• Planetarity and Post-colonial Domesticity