Currently we exist in a world that is everyday more resistant to welcoming new immigrants, which is due in large part to the unconscious and unthought-of — or ahuman — encounters with media and social-political forces (Shields, 2014). Taking the notion of being captured by forces into a material realm and thinking through what such representational forces might physically do for binding a subject to a space and place that is not of their own making, this talk wonders how place making might occur for those who have been dis/placed from a home/land; how does one create place anew, or has place always been present and with the person? As a beginning response, I turn to Felix Guattari’s politics of alterity and ethico-aesthetics as explored in his solo book Chaosmosis: an ethico-aesthetic paradigm (1992/2006) and his book with Suely Rolnik, Molecular Revolution in Brazil (1986/2008). This research is perhaps especially relevant for educators and all who work with those youth who are consistently being captured by the forces of capitalism and new media, as well as for newcomers/immigrants who are captured by representational media images and harmful rhetoric in the socio-digi-political realm.