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worlds. Dialogues in Human Geography) imperative to reimagine
subjectivity against the backdrop of the current ecological crisis. It
contextualizes Ruddick’s reading of Deleuze and Guattari’s becoming-animal with
a broader trajectory of Deleuze’s work on subjectivity. It does so in order to
question how a shift from the liberal humanist subject to constructivist and
relational models of subjectivity might be beneficial as we grapple with the
concept of the human in the Anthropocene.
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