2025/06/01 by Stefan Schreiber, Lea Rees · 2 voices
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s1380203826100269
openalex publication_date 2025/06/01 · openalex created_date 2026/04/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract This provocation seeks to stimulate discussion by highlighting an alternative way of looking at the actions of destruction and creation, not as opposing forces but as an ongoing process of transformation. Destruction encompasses a variety of material and symbolic transformations, which go hand in hand with the creation of new possibilities. Therefore, destruction is not an antagonism to creation but – following Karen Barad’s agential realism – a mode of intra-active becoming. Far from being a theory in its own right, this paper presents a perspective that opens up the possibility of encountering archaeological discourses of destruction and creation from a posthumanist lens.