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manimalities thus entail intimate acts of embracing and enfolding through
which we call up the animals we have always been, and practice, along
with Donna Haraway, new ways of becoming with the creatures we are,
and the creatures that we live among. It is both a promise and a paradox of
the future humanimalities that literature—a distinctively human form of
communication/expression—may be one of the vital places where we can
unteach and unlearn practices of the human.