O cardboard ferocity, an unheralded effect of the patched Anthropocene

We live in a time of catastrophe marked by an environmental crisis that threatens the possibility of many lives on Earth, including humans. Such impacts caused by human interference on the planet indicate the emergence of a new geological epoch, called the Anthropocene. In this paper I seek to understand waste, one of the actors interfering with global warming, not as a problem, but as a common good. From the perspective of the patched Anthropocene, proposed by Anna Tsing in Feral Atlas, I try to follow the traces of rubbish pollution and the wild events that emerge from this entity, such as the practice of cartonera. The ferocity of cartonera lies not in its resistance to the domestication imposed by the laws of the publishing market, but, above all, in the alliance that is built between the different actors involved in the symbiotic process of making-with that makes possible the creation of new territories and new ways of designing and living.