THE NEW ANIMISM: EXPERIMENTAL, ISOMERIC, LIMINAL AND CHAOSMIC

This paper examines animism as an antidote to semiotic capitalism and analyses the latter's magical framework drawing on Marx's concept of "commodity fetishism" and Frazer's notion of "sympathetic magic." Additionally, I explore how animist worlds function, in dialogue with Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of "plane of composition" and "smooth space," from whose combination I elaborate the notion of "field of intensities." Lastly, I propose to define contemporary animism as experimental, isomeric, liminal, and chaosmic in close conversation with recent works by Donna Haraway, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Hilan Bensusan; furthermore, I describe animism as a way out of capitalist ruins towards what Nietzsche called the "sea opened" by God's death.