Wainwright, Richard2022-02-2320222022-02-23http://hdl.handle.net/1828/13744In an era characterized by unprecedented ecological and technological change, Ontological Play: Reinventing (Machinic) Arts-Based Research in the Posthuman Era attempts to seed creative processes for educators, researchers, and artists to collaborate for the common good of planetary co-existence. Humanism and anthropocentrism have created precarious conditions, and much is at stake. Here I consider the revolutionary potential of aesthetic production, while engaging concepts such as mashup and remix as points of departure. In these times of theory fatigue, this dissertation functions as a wayfinding device with both simple and complex refrains that can be further sampled and repurposed. The aim is to reinvent social practices and to learn to play, ontologically.enAvailable to the World Wide Webposthumanismcurriculum studiesThesis