ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a cartography of theoretical concepts and perspectives of various philosophical traditions that contribute to theorizing more/than/human entanglements and the ethical possibilities they carry. The analysis of Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas opens the chapter which implements the transdisciplinary methods of the studies of images and positions the human body as always entangled and mutually generative with the ongoing world’s processes. Subsequently, drawing upon Spinoza’s concept of parallelism, Deleuze’s concept of the fold, and Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the Body without Organs, the chapter unfolds the relational and affective powers of our embodiment with the nonhuman. Addressed through the feminist praxes of Rosi Braidotti, Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, and Stacey Alaimo, the chapter ultimately situates the relationality between the human body and the nonhuman as the world’s ongoing material process. The theoretical perspectives, which are arranged as a sequence of complementary practices, are rather ‘doings’ that activate the further conceptual processes to embrace the ways in which human and nonhumans entanglements are intermeshed and enacted.
