An Invitation to Live Together

Abstract

These entities and the relations through/with which they become inspired are what I call the anthropo-not-seen, a concept I mentioned above. A neologism intended as a counterpart to the Anthropocene, it signals the world-making process whereby worlds that do not make themselves through practices that separate ontologically hu- mans (or culture) from nonhumans (or nature)—nor necessarily conceive as such the differ- ent entities in their assemblages—are both obliged into that distinction and exceed it. The anthropo-not-seen thus refers to both the will (and the world) that obliges the distinc- tion (and destroys what disobeys the obligation) and the excesses to that will: the collec- tives that are composed with entities that are not only human or nonhuman because they are also with what (according to the obligation) they should not be—humans with non- humans (and vice versa.) The anthropo-not-seen mentions existents that are within a historically formulated hegemonic condition of impossibility: they simply cannot be— therefore they are not-seen, not-heard, not-felt, not-known. Importantly,