NODES OF INQUIRY

Pyxis Limethica conducts three interrelated inquiries based on the prospect of multispecies liberation.

Reconfiguring Beings and Subjectivity

Explores relational ontologies beyond anthropocentric models, drawing on posthumanism, multispecies studies, and indigenous ontologies.

Focus:

Posthumanism, Multispecies Studies, Indigenous Ontology, New Materialism, Mythology, Biogeography, Ecology, Animal Behavior, Biodiversity Studies, etc.

Critique and Reconstruction of Knowledges

Examines how power shapes knowledge production, and seeks more inclusive and plural forms of knowing through translation, feminist theory, and the sociology of knowledge.

Focus:

Multilingual studies, translation theory, sociology of knowledge, history of science, feminist science studies, feminist linguistics, indigenous science, etc.

Oppression Analysis and Liberation Philosophies

Analyzes structures of domination across human and more-than-human worlds, and develops integrative approaches to multispecies liberation.

Focus:

Critical Animal Studies, Marxist philosophy, critical theory, decolonial theory, feminism, gender studies, human geography, ecological architecture, environmental urban design, etc.