This collection of essays responds to the urgent call in the humanities to go beyond the act of negative critique which, so far, has been the dominant form of intellectual inquiry in academia. The contributors take their inspiration from Bruno Latour's pragmatic, relational approach and his philosophy of hybrid world where culture is immanent to nature and knowledge is tied to the things it co-creates. In such a world, nature, society, and discourse relate to, rather than negate, each other. The 11 essays, ranging from early modern humanism and modern theorization of literature to contemporary political ecology and animal studies, propose new productive ways of thinking, reading, and writing with, not against, the world. In carrying out concrete practices that are inclusive, rather than exclusive, contributors strive to exemplify a form of scholarship that might be better attuned to the concerns of our post-humanist era.

Foreword William Paulson (University of Michigan, USA)Introduction Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)Part I Early Modern Tradition from a Latourian Relational Perspective1. "Nonmodern Humanism": A Relational Reading of Latour and MontaigneJan Miernowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)2. Practices of Early Modern Orientalism: A Latourian PerspectiveOumelbanine Zhiri (University of California, San Diego, USA)Part II Reassessing the Literary and Political Modernity with Latour3. Nonmodern FlaubertWilliam Paulson (University of Michigan, USA)4 Latour, Stengers, and Nonmodern PoetryClaire Chi-ah Lyu (University of Virginia, USA)5. Kafka's Whipper and Joyce's Pandybat: Reading Scenes of Discipline with LatourGabriel Hankins (Clemson University, USA)6. Michelet's NonmodernityMaxime Goergen (University of Sheffield, UK)Part III Latour's Contributions to the Field of Contemporary Animal Studies7. Landing in Animal TerritoriesVinciane Despret (University of Liège, Belgium)8. Composing with the "Animal Side"Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)Part IV Issues of Practical Concern Related to Latour's Thinking9 Latour's Interpretation of Donald TrumpGraham Harman (SCI-Arc, USA, and European Graduate School)10. The Literary Worlds: Indigenous and Western Network EthnographyStephen Muecke (Flinders University, Australia)AfterwordRita Felski (University of Virginia, USA, and University of Southern Denmark)Notes on ContributorsIndex