Set Margins' #115: Slow Earth Companion: Rooted Wayfinding in Fragmentary Times

Set Margins', 2026, softcover, 300 pages, 20 x 20 cm

Slow Earth Companion: Rooted Wayfinding in Fragmentary Times is a print anthology of essays, reflections, poetry, and artwork by many practitioners and relevant thinkers, longtime For The Wild guests and collaborators.

This book is a connection. Live it.
This book is a love song. Sing it.
This book is an offering. Breathe it.
This book is a seed. Plant it. 

This strange and unruly anthology invites you into a cyclical world alive with sporific beings, curious elements, ritual remembering, and fragments of wisdom. It is offered as an altar or companion, a book to carry into the forest, to muddy, dog-ear, and return to again and again.

Within the pages, you'll meet the voices of Bayo Akomolafe, adrienne maree brown, Tyson Yunkaporta, Sylvia V. Linsteadt, Pinar Sinopoulos-Lloyd, brontë velez, Lyla June, Jarod K. Anderson, Jacqueline Suskin, Dori Midnight, and many more luminaries, each tracing lines of living reciprocity between humans, creatures, elements, and Earth.

Slow Earth Companion gathers these voices and visions, shaped over a decade of deep listening and relational conversation, and sets them loose in prose, prayer, poetry, and practice, alongside stirring and sensorial drawings by Krista Dragomer that hum and buzz with elemental entanglement and a wily more-than-human presence to nudge you along the way.

Join us. Let us venture, shift, falter, heal, and traverse together.

This book builds on the intellectual legacy of Silke Helfrich (1967–2021), one of the most influential figures in contemporary commons theory, and constitutes her final contribution to the field. The patterns of commoning, developed through long-standing collaborative commons research, form a central conceptual reference throughout the book.

First published in German in 2022, Commoning Art quickly became a key reference in debates on art, commons, and cultural self-organization. Discussed in academic contexts, artist-run spaces, and cultural institutions, the book has contributed to shaping how commons and commoning in the arts are theorized and practiced. This English edition makes the work newly accessible to a broader international readership.