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We propose that transmaterial worlding can be understood as embracing all forms of communication between and beyond human forms. It steps away from an anthropocentric focus so that ‘social’ extends beyond human, reframes language to include transmaterial multilingual communication and sets all these relations within a critique of institutional discourses and material structures. We integrate the concern of protecting the ecology of the planet. This involves our understanding research as an onto-epistemological activity fluidly situated in a range of emergent transmaterial communicatory activities.

Transmaterial worlding as a form of inquiry requires that we re-think our relations with-in our environment, that we re-position ourselves from in-habiting or co-habiting the world (both separate us from other materiality) to co-inhabiting (Simon and Salter, 2019). Co-inhabitation emphasises not simply collaboration and intra-action (Barad, 2007) but a humility to re-position humans as living in a vital-emergent-disappearing world as well as alongside and as vital-emergent-disappearing matter.