Thinking-With Matter(s)

Thinking-with carries ethical stakes, entangled in the tensions between critique, loyalty, and complicity. This chapter interrogates these dynamics through Haraway’s critique of Latour, considering how intellectual bonds shape the ethics of thought. Following Massumi, Deleuze, and Arendt in disrupting hegemonic modes of thinking in favor of experimental existence, treason emerges not as betrayal but as a generative force. Moving beyond critique, the chapter explores creative duplicity as a means of modulating complicity, challenging proprietary and representational thought. An ethics of entanglement, resisting colonial logics, calls for nonanthropocentric ways of sensing and sensemaking. Reconfiguring thought in this way unsettles legal, philosophical, and political imaginaries, making room for livable futures beyond inherited constraints.