Silence and Art to be Human in a More-Than-Human World: With Michel Serres and Posthumanist Companions

In the context of Michel Serres' and posthumanism's proposal of rethinking the human and the world in a perspective of universal co-belonging, silence (of the human word) assumes the function of a catalyst for the recognition of the human body in its aesthetic, cognitive, relational, and hybrid dimensionality, and of the world in its agency (including artistic).Within this framework, the contribution proposes a reading of art as a relation and catalyzer of relations, that is, as a (re)activation of positive relations of the human with a world that reveals itself to be increasingly hypercomplex.Taking Serresian ideas on artistic practices as not(only) human forms of expression and some posthumanist "isomorphic" positions on non-human agency as tools, the research then highlights the more-than-human scope of art.