Derrida’s term, ‘animot’, serves here as a useful springboard for this proposed area of enquiry:

Ecce animot. Neither a species nor a gender nor an individual, it is an irreducible living multiplicity of mortals, and rather than a double clone or a portmanteau word, a sort of monstrous hybrid, a chimera waiting to be put to death by its Bellerophon. 

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