“Forest Is the Name of the World,” playful experiences, and the production of health: ecosophy, parenting, composting, and Amazonian worldviews

Abstract

This article offers an analytical perspective on the historical ontology of the self within the "thought of difference," aiming to generate health through the playful experiences of "body-territories" found in Amazonian worldviews. The essay seeks to articulate composting, humus creation, and kinship connections—drawing on Donna Haraway (2021; 2023)—as a basis for problematizing knowledge through a perspectivism of heterogenesis; this involves practices interwoven like a "cat's cradle" of intersecting life-lines that produce health. Furthermore, the article introduces the "making-forest" device inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin (2020)—a form of protest enacted via a manifesto advocating for human, non-human, and extra-human beings within the multiple agencies of body-territories. Finally, the text concludes by integrating Félix Guattari’s (1985; 1993) ecosophy and militant praxis to propose a "molecular revolution" regarding the processes of desire's singularization. This unfolds within a force diagram involving the playful cultural experiences of the Amazon, affirming ways of life that struggle, enact agency, resist, and generate care; these processes occur within networks of geophilosophical confluence—linking cosmogonies, desiring force-flows, and collective assemblages of desire—to shape *florestania* (forest-citizenship) as a mode of being, knowing, and ethical, aesthetic, and political potency.