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Special Issue on the 3rd Metahuman Futures Forum
April 2026
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Editorial
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Edito's Note
~ SUKHENDU DAS (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:i)
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Issue Editor's Note
~ JAYM*/JAIME DEL VAL (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:ii)
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Articles
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Implicatory Climate Crisis Denial and the Dualism
of Vacillation: From Enlightenment Thought to Contemporary Inaction
~ Authored By - Dr. Panagiota Georgopoulou (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:01-14)
Abstract View Article PDFBy bridging insights from sociology, posthumanist critical theory, eco-Marxist critical theory, and intellectual history, this article focuses on implicatory climate crisis denial — a term coined by sociologist Kari Marie Norgaard in Living in Denial to describe a paradoxical social stance in which the climate crisis is acknowledged yet bracketed from everyday life. Framing denial as a social question, it considers competing interpretations in contemporary theory: Bruno Latour’s posthumanist critique of the human/nature divide, as articulated in the representative work We Have Never Been Modern, and Andreas Malm’s eco-Marxist account of capitalism’s structural imperatives, conveyed in key texts such as Fossil Capital and “The Future Is the Termination Shock.” While these perspectives assume that dualism plays a significant role in shaping modernity and the dynamics of denial, this article challenges that view. Drawing on the work of philosopher and intellectual historian Panagiotis Kondylis in European Enlightenment, it contends that modernity is defined less by fixed binaries than by an oscillating “dualism of vacillation,” in which humans are conceived simultaneously as natural beings and as masters of nature. This conceptual ambivalence, it argues, renders implicatory denial a contemporary symptom of modernity’s unresolved paradox of emancipation.
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Implicatory climate crisis denial, dualism of vacillation, posthumanism, eco-Marxism, Panagiotis Kondylis, Enlightenment thought.
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Planetary Holocide and Metahuman Justice: An
Integrative Frame for Addressing the Extinction Crisis
~ Authored By - Jaym*/Jaime del Val (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:15-55)
Abstract View Article PDFThis paper starts by synthesising in unusual way the overwhelming evidences that show that the Animal Exploitation Food Industry (AEFI), an acronym and field of study here proposed, is recognised by science as the major cause of the climate and biodiversity crises, mass extinctions, global pollution, nonhuman animal abuse, threats to human/humanimal health, water and food security, human justice, equality, and peace, along their associated existential and extinction threats, historically and in the present. Nonhuman animal exploitation for food is hence the elephant in the room, the missing piece in the “extincton puzzle”. But this is silenced in the global agenda so that States systemically violate human rights and those of all life forms by actively promoting such industries while human activism and academia mostly perpetuate Human Supremacism and speciesism. A double denialism is hence at play, both as actively orchestrated by the lobbies that control and underlie States and media for the sake of profit, and as deeper omnipresent expression of Human Supremacism, so that both the radicality of the extinction crisis and its deep sources are ignored, along with the needed replies: shift to plant based diets, deep degrowth towards indigenous ways of living, and voluntary, queer antinatalism.
An integrative, intersectional and holistic, metahumanistic frame is proposed that overcomes the usual fragmentation of ontologies, policies, and ethics in addressing the deep interconnectedness of humanimals, nonhuman animals, and environmental processes and problems, towards a metahuman justice capable of addressing the challenge of the current extinction crisis or Holocide. Ultimately this will require deep systemic shifts beyond reformist agendas, towards self-organisation and deep degrowth, undoing the destructive nature of human expansion on Earth for a potential planetary regeneration, as part of a VegAnarQueer and Metahumanist politics of Earth liberation during the upcoming collapse
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Human Supremacism, Metahumanism, Extinction, Animal Exploitation, Denialism.
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To Die To Live: Activism, Chaos, Art
~ Authored By - Patricia MacCormack (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:56-66)
Abstract View Article PDFHuman exceptionalism retains a desire for forms of immortality through abstractions of economic increment, population increase, and technological transhumanistic impulses, all of which devastate the materiality of ecological thriving of the extra-human, the Earth and its nonhuman environments and inhabitants. New techniques of knowledge are required, from the posthuman, metahuman and ahuman, to challenge the paradigms by which we can know how to dismantle human exceptionalism. This article explores the inter-relationship of death activism, art as a ubiquitous experiment in thought and radical ecology as an entry point forthis dismantling. Taking its cue for the radical transformation of humanity through acts of compassion, such as veganism, antinatalism, and rewilding (of ourselves and the world) elucidates concepts such as sustainability as anthropocentric nostalgic phantasies. This article deliberately provokes through extremes of Dionysian and ecstatic activisms in order to emphasise the urgency of artistic thinking and embodied practices which act as a counterfoil to the economic abstractions and violent environmental extractionism of late stage capitalism.
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Radical Ecology, Veganism, Antinatalism, Death Studies, Art, Activism.
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The Importance of Indigenous Knowledges in
Times of Climate Crisis
~ Authored By - Aleksandra Łukaszewicz (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:67-78)
Abstract View Article PDFThe Anthropocene has placed humanity in a precarious position, defined by accelerating climate change, resource depletion, and a gradual loss of the skills that long enabled human survival. In many regions of the Global North, daily life depends on extensive infrastructures of energy, industrial agriculture, modern medicine, and mass production. Skills such as growing food, identifying edible plants, preparing nourishment, healing injuries, building shelter, or producing clothing have not only undergone cultural transformation but have also been largely delegated to specialists and machine systems. This condition may seem like the culmination of progress, yet it obscures the vulnerability created by our dependence on fragile and resource-intensive networks.
If these networks falter, survival will hinge on the ability to adapt. Historically, crises have led either to violent competition for resources or to the cultivation of new forms of cooperation and resilience. Adaptation is not only biological but also cultural, shaped by ways of knowing and relating. Traditions that emphasize coexistence, interdependence, and reciprocal engagement with the environment can be found across many cultures, particularly among Indigenous communities. These cultures are grounded in ecological knowledge systems that situate humans as participants within living environments rather than as their masters.
This perspective suggests two imperatives. First, following United Nations recommendations, Indigenous knowledge must be actively preserved. Second, rather than attempting to reproduce Indigenous lifeways, we should adopt their relational approach to the environment, fostering new ecological balances. Sustaining epistemic diversity is therefore not only an ethical task but a practical one for navigating an uncertain climatic future.
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Indigenous Knowledge, Epistemic System, Climate Crisis, Adaptation.
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Not Unlike a plant: What humans can learn from
observing vegetals. Embodied practices inspired by
floral collectivism
~ Authored By - Evi Stamou (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:79-92)
Abstract View Article PDF“Not Unlike a plant” (an on-going research-artistic project I conduct along with filmmaker Pietro Radin) focuses on plant observation, explores plant-life, and proposes the engagement with plants as a way to reconnect with human-plant knowledges and re-establish relations that have been lost through the disembodied rationale of modern science. Collecting writings left by artists and writers of the 20th century, who created and took care of their gardens while facing terminal illnesses or trying to cope with grief, we collaborate with dancers, performers, and people who would like to express themselves through movement, to activate the body as a medium to perceive and learn about the world. By using excerpts from artists’ writings, as well as by observing how plants respond to light and darkness, how they negotiate for space -with patience and dignity-, how they respond to danger or even migrate due to climate change, we draw inspiration for collective video choreographies that reflect on alternative ways of moving and being. The work’s outcome, as well as this paper, aims to address issues related to the life and routines of plants, illness as an equally accepted situation as health, the relation between art and the every-day, the ecologies of care and co-existence, and the multiple possible ways of re-imagining ourselves and our futures.
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Plant Life, Collective Choreographies, Embodied Practices, Vegetal Biodiversity, Human-Plant Relations.
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Drawing Beyond the Human: Traces and Graphic
Gestures in a Posthuman Language
~ Authored By - Anthi Kosma (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:93-104)
Abstract View Article PDFThis article examines drawing and mark-making through a critical post and metahuman lens, challenging anthropocentric, logocentric, and ocularcentric traditions that position drawing as an exclusively human practice of representation and control. Through an informal genealogy from Paleolithic cave paintings to contemporary mark-making—including animal-created marks, algorithmic drawings, and environmental traces—the article argues for understanding drawing not as static representation but as performative gesture, a “dance” of material engagement that exceeds human intentionality. Beginning with Georges Bataille’s interpretation of Lascaux as marking humanity’s anxious separation from animals, the article questions whether this narrative itself remains bound by anthropocentric dualisms. Drawing on posthuman philosophy, new materialism, and nonWestern epistemologies, it reframes traces as more-than-human communicative acts involving diverse agencies in constant intra-action. The article critiques how drawing practices across scales—from intimate sketches to vast territorial interventions—both reveal and perpetuate anthropocentric logics, while also demonstrating potential for more ecologically attuned, technologically aware approaches. By reconsidering drawing as gestural intra-action rather than representational object, this expanded understanding positions mark-making as crucial for cultivating responsive, accountable relationships within broader webs of life in the Anthropocene.
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Traces, Drawing, Posthuman/metahuman, Communication, Gestures, Questioning Anthropocentrism, Ocularcentrism, Logocentrism.
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Telepathy Beyond Individualist Metaphysics: IntraAction, Ontohacking and the Radical Entanglement
of Thought
~ Authored By - Luciano Zubillaga (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:105-118)
Abstract View Article PDFThis paper challenges traditional individualist metaphysics by proposing a radically embodied reconceptualisation of telepathy grounded in intra-action, proprioceptive intelligence, and cosmic relationality. Drawing on Jaym*/Jaime del Val’s radical movement philosophy of ontohacking, Karen Barad’s agential realism, and neuroscientific perspectives from Fedorenko, Piantadosi, and Gibson, telepathy is reframed as an emergent dynamics of relational movement rather than an exchange between disembodied minds. Integrating Federico Faggin’s view of experience as primary with Del Val’s notion of Body Intelligence (BI), this study situates telepathy within kinetic, affective, and ecological fields of becoming
Rejecting neurocentric and representationalist models, it positions telepathy as a process of proprioceptive attunement—an embodied resonance across metabodies and environments—where perception, sensation, and affect co-compose new modes of planetary coexistence. Through the experimental films of The Church of Expanded Telepathy(TCOET), telepathy is explored as a practice of metaformance, expanding communication into multisensory and collective movement architectures.
Ultimately, telepathy is presented not as a supernatural phenomenon but as an ethical and ecological modality: a form of co-sensing that resists algorithmic reductionism, reclaims the body’s plastic intelligence, and affirms life’s relational variability amid the crises of the Algoricene.
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Telepathy, Intra-action, ontohacking, Body Intelligence, Cosmism, Algoricene.
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Wrong Contact Zones
~ Authored By - Emma Bigé (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:119-134)
Abstract View Article PDFA chapter from Mouvementements. Écopolitiques de la danse (La Découverte, 2023), “Wrong Contact Zones” asks: How do we describe that place where we allow ourselves to meet one another? When a gesture causes epidermises to graze and masses to collide, what histories, what geographies, what ancestralities, what asymmetries of power are brought into play? The site of investigation here is a performance by two Black artists, Ishmael Houston-Jones and Fred Holland, and their Wrong Contact Manifesto, a dissenting contribution to the (overwhelmingly white) (North American) choreographic practice and community of Contact Improvisation (itself a counter-cultural movement). Their Manifesto begins: “We are Black […] We interrupt each other and the flow can go fuck itself […] We avoid physical contact most of the time.” And so this chapter asks: What prevents skins from entering in contact? How do race, gender, sexualities—and the exclusion of them—come into play when we seek to touch each other? Contact Improvisation is an appropriate starting-point for this investigation because it is a form of dance in which the dancers are supposed to meet as pure masses, leap into the air and study the effect of gravity on their gestures when they land on each other. But what about the other kind of gravity? What about the attractions/repulsions embedded in these masses, and that prevent them from falling into each others’ arms? In other words: What stops us from touching each other? This chapter concludes by examining the concept of hapticality in the theoretical works of Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, and of Jack Halberstam, to consider this question of the racial legacies that haunt the tactile and how they shape contemporary politics and aesthetics—an urgent task in this age of haptophobia and social distancing
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Contact Improvisation, Choreopolitics, Race, Touch, Hapticality.
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Interkinaesthesia. Rethinking relations through
Contact Improvisation: Beyond the Imposition of
Form
~ Authored By - Michela Bloisi (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:135-148)
Abstract View Article PDFThis article highlights the transformative potential of Contact Improvisation, a practice introduced by choreographer Steve Paxton in the 1970s. Approaching it through the intertwined frames of postmodern philosophy, postcolonial theory, ecological thinking, and meta-humanist critique, the article shows how Contact Improvisation offers unique tools for critically examining Western aesthetic and epistemic paradigms. At its heart, this is a practice oscillating between radical experimentation and structural limitations: it invites us to inhabit bodily contact as a dynamic field of co-existence - a relational space open to difference rather than assimilation. The only rule is simple: move while maintaining contact with other bodies. A body communicates through its presence before words: both politics and dance spring from fundamental relationships between bodies, not just ideals or discourses. In CI, the improvisational encounter acts as a living laboratory for exploring relationality, active listening, and the irreducibility of otherness. The paper argues that CI constitutes a radical reimagining of intersubjectivity and resistance to paradigms of control, hierarchy, and cultural homogenization, while not shying away from its embeddedness in Western privileges and the tensions this entails.
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Contact Improvisation, relations, bio-cultural imperialism, Interkinaesthesia, Metahumanism.
INTERVIEW
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Stelarc on Contestable Futures, Indeterminacy and
Error
~ Interview with Jaym* del Val (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:149-166)
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REFLECTION PIECES
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From Psycho-Body to Cyber-Systems:
Images as Post-Human Entities
~ Authored By - Stelarc (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:167-174)
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Choreographing Coexistence – A Laboratory of
Political Awakeningi
~ Authored By - Jean-Marc Matos (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:175-182)
Abstract View Article PDFChoreographing Coexistence – A Laboratory of Political Awakening explores how choreography, dance, and embodied practices can open new pathways for political and ethical imagination in an era dominated by algorithmic systems, artificial intelligence, and ecological fragility. This paper positions dance not as a form of representation but as an epistemological and ontological practice—a way of thinking, sensing, and existing in relation. Through a constellation of philosophical references (Barad, Chatonsky, Snyder, Del Val), personal artistic practice, and reflections from projects developed within K. Danse, it argues that choreography constitutes a living laboratory in which new modalities of coexistence between human, non-human, and technological agents can be rehearsed, felt, and reconfigured.
The paper critically addresses the rise of algorithmic governance and what Grégory Chatonsky calls vectofascism (Chatonsky “What is Vectofascism?”)—forms of power that operate through prediction, normalization, and desire modulation rather than overt repression. In response, the paper proposes an aesthetic and political practice rooted in embodied vulnerability, failure, and unpredictability. Drawing from posthumanist and quantum ontologies, it maintains that meaning does not emerge from isolated individuals but from relations, rhythms, and intra-actions. Dance becomes a method for reclaiming uncertainty, expanding perception, and resisting the commodification and optimization of life.
The body is approached not as a stable identity but as a living, relational field—an organism of metamorphosis. Influenced by Jaym* del Val’s radical metahumanist critique, the paper challenges both transhumanist fantasies of perfection and anthropocentric hierarchies, arguing instead for an understanding of the body as a process of continual becoming—unstable, porous, and fully embedded within ecological and technological systems. In this framework, intelligence is distributed—not solely human nor artificial, but emergent from interdependence, micro perception, and shared vulnerability.
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Choreography, Coexistence, Political Awakening, Care, Fragility, Excentration.
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Moving beyond the human in Mad language
~ Authored By - Lake Angela (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:183-193)
Abstract View Article PDFOther ways of languaging are valuable and effective beyond human verbal languages. I will discuss in particular a method of translation from dance to poetry developed since my work with intersemiotics has focused on neurominority and Mad expression. Anthropocentric Western culture outcasts neurominority thinkers, forcibly incarcerating the schizophrenia-spectrum population in a way that parallels the exclusion of nonhuman beings.
Because those with whom I communicate through intersemiotic translation speak in their own idiolects, outside our collaborative expressions and translations into the preferred human idiom of logic, such Madspeakers are dismissed and oppressed, sometimes physically abused, injected with neuroleptics, and stripped of our rights. The relationship of many of these speakers with nonhuman animals is one of respect and appreciation for nonverbal and emotionally evocative and multiple languages. Many who have been locked away, injected, and dismissed—and create expressions via movement—understand language as multiple, nonverbal, and incantatory with a near-mystical power of animation.
Though pathologized by society as delusional or hallucinatory, those who receive visions often understand themselves to be more than one being, including the bacterial cloud speaking nonverbally within, and identify as nonhuman or more than human beings. Some examples of poetry translated from dance movement as a primary language and its inclusion of nonhuman participation will come from my nonfiction poetry collection Scivias Choreomaniae, with the aim of showing the necessity and benefits of learning from Mad processes to change the human mindset.
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Mad poetry, dance language, intersemiotic translation, nonverbal language, nonhuman language, schizophrenia-spectrum creativity.
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The Compounding Interest of Kindness
~ Authored By - Marcus Ten Low (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:194-204)
Abstract View Article PDFStarting with the groundings of subjective thought, this essay invites readers to discover the significance of kindness: how they will surely have benefited from it, and how it manifests in our world. Readers are encouraged to ask practical questions about kindness to bring to consciousness some more conscientious decisions about how to be kind, on a daily basis. The essay then presents a schematic overview of the major opponents to kindness on a worldwide scale, with issues ranging from the more recognizable problems of capitalism and assumptions of infinite growth, to the overpopulation crisis, to fundamental problems in terms of poor cultural defaults. These issues are discussed with respect to every important paradigm: the ecological, the cultural, the societal, the political, and effects on sentient sufferance
Next, some realistic case studies are described to test readers to identify problems and possibilities in enacting kindness. The cases here describe various levels of authority and power when kindness is attempted, and how successful each protagonist has been. Some core concepts and themes are then described in the kindness equation; these include “needs versus wants”, “the immoral victim”, and “active versus passive kindness”. The essay concludes with some generalizing remarks and a call to action.
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Kindness, Worldview, Sufferance, Ecology, Human Species, Breeding.
BOOK REVIEW
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Reading “Ontohackers: Radical Movement
Philosophy in the Age of Extinctions and Algorithms, Part I: Radical Movement Philosophy and the Body Intelligence R/evolution, (punctum books, 2024)”. A Broader Review
~ Authored By - Evi Sampanikou (Volume 2, Special Issue, 2026). (pp:205-210)
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