Matterphorics of ?-Human(ism)

Challenging the dogmatic image of thought, this chapter interrogates the limits of representational thinking and the need to rethink thinking itself. Engaging with Whitehead, Deleuze, Guattari, and Glissant, it unsettles dominant notions of reason, subjectivity, and recognition through concepts like anarchic reason, errant thought, terra incognita, and ?-humanism. Thought is not merely epistemic but matterphorical—an active force that participates in reality’s becoming rather than merely describing it. By rejecting mediation through analogy or metaphor, nonrepresentational thought calls for an ethics of thinking-with difference, insisting that thought matters. It thus alters the very conditions of thinkability and in doing so reconfigures the boundaries of what can be sensed, known, and imagined.