Things We Could

How posthumanist enables a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, with whom we are entangled. Over the past forty years, ers have privileged human values such that human-centered is seen as progressive. Yet because all that is not human has been depleted, made extinct, or put to human use, today‘s contributes to the existential threat of climate change and the ongoing extinctions of other species. In Things We Could , Ron Wakkary argues that human-centered is not the answer to our problems but is itself part of the problem. Drawing on philosophy, theory, and numerous works, he shows the way to a relational and expansive based on humility and cohabitation. Wakkary says that can no longer ignore its exploitation of nonhuman species and the materials we mine for and reduce to human use. Posthumanism, he argues, enables a rethinking of that displaces the human at the center of thought and action. Weaving together posthumanist philosophies with , he describes what he calls things--nonhumans made by ers--and calls for a commitment to with more than human participation. Wakkary also focuses on as "nomadic practices"--a multiplicity of intentionalities and situated knowledges that shows to be expansive and pluralistic. He calls his overall approach "ing-with": the practice of in a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, and in which we are bound together materially, ethically, and existentially.