In the break (of rights and representation): sociality beyond the non/human subject

Nonhuman interests are today routinely articulated in a register of ‘rights’. ‘Rights nature’ and ‘animal rights’ have expanded the vernacular liberal rights beyond human subject, thereby arguably entering realm ‘post-human rights’. For such to be enforced, however, they must recognised within legal order mediated by subjects speaking on behalf nonhuman ‘right-holders’. This article focuses modes representation subjectification nonhumans – whether natural entities, animals, or ecosystems that underpin this reconfiguration. While granting de-centres figure at heart orders, it remains focused category subject. Taking questions symposium ‘After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics’, I argue might well enable move ‘after rights’, but not To think possibility an turn practices sociality as works critical Black studies refuse subject such. What emerges living escape from violent subjections racialised, colonial, inscriptions worlding through ‘rights’, humans nonhumans.