some theses on corn: gente de maíz, mutual domestication, nonhuman relationality

This project is an attempt to play with "theses" as a form of research, integrating academic essay, creative writing, image collecting, making and intervening, and materiality. I examine the intersecting racial, social, and ecological implications of the term gente de maíz (people of corn), and consider the personal and political potential in highlighting corn as an object that, if attended to, challenges western understandings of human/nonhuman binaries and relations.