A peculiar elusiveness ties together astral interpretations and atmospheric observations. Computational quotidians inform and organize the predictions embedded in astrologic e–notifications and the forecasts emerging out of planetary climatic apparatuses that, in turn, morph back into us in both grand and trivial ways. Albeit disparate, both imaginaries offer an opaque disposition that alludes to action. Here, I am interested in the modalities that govern the thinking and acting upon the not-yet-known, the unseen, the identified but concealed. This quest is, I believe, of particular urgency as it is set in an unprecedented historico-metaphysical age: “technologically modern humans” have encountered a new, “alternatural” dimension, anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro intimates. And while technoscientific practices and secular politics remain central to grasp
the current modes of existence, they may no longer be sufficient to come to terms with the unfolding futures.

In this context, I ask how can a praxis of expanding the margins of analysis and decentering dominant narratives equip us with forms of coexisting otherwise. As Donna Haraway suggested, “redistributing the narrative field by telling another version of a crucial myth is a major process in crafting new meanings. One version never replaces another, but the whole field is rearranged in interrelation among all the versions in tension with each other“. In a similar vein, I attempt to examine a myriad of climatic episodes while attending to the narratives of the Black Atlantic, the Indigenous Arctic, and the Extramodern Amazon. By way of thinking juxtapositionally, I look at such past, ongoing, and impending tensions that may perhaps foreground other processes of building futures.