ABSTRACT
This chapter expands on nine methodological principles in the posthumanities as an emergent research area. Posthuman thought, as it decolonises the relationships between the human and the non-human, is forging a practical conceptual architecture and set of methods to investigate and enact connectedness, belonging and responsibility. In the process, enlightenment naturalism, rationality and secularism are contrasted with non-Western systems that have invented concepts that slide across the nature/culture binary. These principles pragmatically and materially consider human and posthuman questions, focussing in particular on the capacity for artworks to provide embodied syntheses of the concepts and methods in posthumanities’ research. These artistic expressions model the creativity and flexibility required for humanity to adapt to its new habitats and environmental crises. We propose Indigenous territorial modes of belonging, with their techniques of ecological management, as correctives to destructive modernisation. These corrections occur through embodied, cooperative, collaborative and respectful approaches to thinking beyond the human, to the posthuman, and more-than-human, ecologies, economies, habitats and living Earth systems.
