Distinctions between the real and the virtual, and the human and the other-than-human, are in a continuous process of unravelling. Pooling together, they form a chora of radical intimacies and affects. This dreamlike, fluid, liminal, cybernetic (other)world of shadows and odd sensualities necessitates new ways of looking and caring, as well as new languages beyond the written and spoken word.

Transcending the limits of language through affect, the embodied Japanese philosophies of wabi sabi and mono no aware allow us to articulate our desperate need for alternative ways of being human and non-human, and imagine our profound spiritual longing for utopian potentiality “beyond Man”.