Explore nonhuman existence as it appears in a world without humans; learn about the world without humanity as we know it, or the human world as metaphorically portrayed through nonhumans.

① Universe, Earth, worldview
② Plants/animals, microscopic life, insects
③ Virtual reality, objects, machines, robots
④ Space, cities, provinces, the countryside
⑤ Death, spirit, formal system

Criticize the violence and unethical nature of the anthropocentric dualism that has become the foundation of our technological civilization, capitalism, and Western modernism.

① Racism, gender conflict, LGBT
② Colonies, wars, refugees, survivors
③ Inequality, poverty, alienation, labor
④ Disease, disability, non-disability, abnormal declaration
⑤ Human rights, criminals, death with dignity, lonely death

Focus on the new crisis combining humans and nonhumans that began in the 1950s, the crisis known as the “Great Acceleration.”

① Global warming, factory farming, plastics, particulate matter
② Neoliberalism, technological uncertainty, energy/food crises, particulate matter, trash
③ Infectious diseases, nuclear tests, environmental hormones
④ Strangers in our midst
⑤ A future in which humans are left behind

This refers to the intertwining and intersection of humans and nonhumans and the effort to meet and communicate.

① Omniscient nonhuman viewpoint
② Living with the Earth
③ Imaginary beings that inhabit the cracks in the world
④ The power to observe what surrounds humans
⑤ Existential superhumans, transformed humans, humans transgressing boundaries, and humans experiencing unity of the self and the world

Explore a “can do” world of possibility at a time that requires practical action and an ontological shift in the human and nonhuman.

① The domain of humans’ newfound relationship with animals
② Alternatives to overcome the climate crisis
③ A significant philosophical shift
④ Encounter a world containing diverse otherness
⑤ A world moving forward toward coexistence and solidarity