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The Five Arts of Living on the Pandemic Planet: Haraway’s Compostism in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam

This paper aims to analyze the form of life, or the arts of living that humans and nonhumans make together on the verge of extinction after the pandemic in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam through the lens of Donna Haraway’s ‘Compostism’. It focuses on the new form of life, or the five arts of living dedicated to the multispecies flourishing. The first is to recognize that humans are not modern humans, but are composts. The second is not to succumb to despair and the politics of indifference, but to stay with the troubles and devote ourselves to the possible recovery. The third is to jump into the compost heap to encounter unexpected companion species, and train tirelessly to ‘becoming-with’ them. The fourth is to wage a ‘Gaia War’ against modern humans who cannot negotiate. The fifth is to attempt at odd practices related to reproduction. This novel urges us to recognize that we are compost and relentless try to ‘worlding-with’ nonhumans for a worldly flourishing on a damaged ‘pandemic planet’.