Words produce worlds, language divides things into categories and allows for certain
things to exist and not for others. Starting from the intersectional lines between
feminisms and ecocritical thought, I explore the power of language from three entry
points: Nature, Future and Magic. The concept of Nature is often used as a transcendental
device for legitimization. Nature is used to mask a ‘norm’, passing it off as objective
and immutable. The prescriptive uses of the natural—and the distinction between what
is natural and what is artificial—have been similarly harmful both for the environment
and for marginalized subjects such as women. Also a Future is something linguistically
produced. The idea regarding the times to comeis the manifestation of the horizon
of a possibility. In imagining a certain future, or in the impossibility to conceive it, we allow
for the regeneration of other times, the reiteration of the past or for the possibility
of the new to be born. What is considered real and what is not, namely the separation
between facts or fables, is the first act of worlding. Magical thought troubles this
distinction as conventionally conceived: it’s a form of refusal, an effective word,
an act of worldmaking and another cosmology. Through the questioning of these three
binarisms, this research attempts to contribute to the downfall of dualistic
and universalistic thought and the recognition of its categories—masculine and feminine,
machine and human, cultural and natural—as obsolete.