I propose to investigate the posthuman idea of non-human agency by
creating a contact zone with the thought of the Thirteenth Century
philosopher Biagio Pelacani. In a ‘medieval posthumanist’ style, I put
in place a creative dialogue with Pelacani on the non-human agency in
order to attract critical attention on the relevance, implications, historicity
of the posthuman idea of non-human agency. In such a perspective
I grasp in Pelacani an idea of material agency that is embodied in
a metaphysical-cosmological doctrine according to which there’s an a
unique material living animated principle from whose power all that
is, including the human with its intellect, is taken from (human spontaneous
generation from matter). In this idea of material agency with
its attempt to articulate the boundaries of the human within a vibrant
matter it therefore seems to me that I can read a significant trigger for
the posthuman idea of agency in its implications of destabilizing the
notion of human exceptionality.