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include vulnerable reading, which I take up in the last three chapters of the
book as I turn toward a dehumanist ethico- politics. The decolonizing po-
tential of dehumanism against mastery must reach beyond the historically
contingent figure of the human toward other forms of living and being. De-
humanism’s promise is in becoming sensitive to those human and inhuman
beings that we currently conceive as proximate to us, and most urgently to
those which we still imagine as radically distinct.