ABSTRACT
The author introduces the concept of instauration invented by Étienne Souriau to show its purchase for recalibrating theory as a form of methodology in posthumanist literacy research. She argues that if, today, the problem of life has changed, other timelines and styles of connectivity among different modes of existences might need to be encompassed, not only the fruitful and harmonious. She suggests that in theorizing the posthuman and non-human modes of literacy research, we might need to also account for the destructive, virtual, and indifferent modes of composition of relations immanent to any research event.
