Beyond Theory: A Mythical Journey Towards Posthumanist Ethix

This chapter explores the possibility of posthumanist ethics that can help us actually embrace and respond to complex challenges in the present-day world, such as rapid technological and environmental transformations. This exploration is grounded in post-dualistic and relational frameworks, where the dialogue between theory and practice is central. The very way this piece was crafted reflects this search: pluralistically conceived, it emerges from the merging of individual and collective writing, challenging the notion of solitary authorship and affirming knowledge production as a relational practice. Building the concept of ‘ethix’, this chapter seeks to illustrate ways to translate widespread posthumanist ideas into tangible actions and behaviours, engaging with everyday life experiences and issues, in the understanding that the how is the what: the praxes we embrace in our lives are our ethical manifestations. This chapter offers a toolkit for our life journey, exploring notions such as chaosmos, connection, respect, embodied experiences, wholeness, creativity and silence in non-analytical ways. In line with this perspective, ‘ethix’ is realized through the development of a rhizomatic plurilogue, which intertwines excerpts from different authors across several writing styles, such as tales, poems, academic short essays and journal entries. Based on the activities developed during the Posthuman Summer Camp (Naturama, Italy, 9–13 August 2024), this chapter advocates for a shift towards ethics as a lived practice that recognizes the mutual impact of actions and reactions of, and on, all entities, both human and nonhuman, in our dynamics of coexistence. This is a journey of self-exploration: enjoy it.