Edited by Patricio Dávila, Ganaele Langlois, and Renata Leitão
In 1996, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (Mexico), formed by peoples of Mayan descent, declared that in “the world we want, everybody fits. The world we want is a world in which many worlds fit.” Since then, their vision has given rise to the concepts of the pluriverse and pluriversality. The pluriverse invites frictions between radically different modes of knowing and being and experiments in the production of new hybrid knowledges and new modes of being. The artistic and scholarly contributions that make up this special issue investigate the crossroads, the encounters, the divergences and convergences that build new possible worlds, and the friction of incommensurabilities that nevertheless serve to build, to craft, to express the potential worlds that we, as humans, non-humans, and more-than-humans alike, could share.