Barndt, DeborahMarino, Sara Kate2022-12-142022-12-142022-06-272022-12-14http://hdl.handle.net/10315/40646This dissertation integrates philosophical concepts from Deleuze and Guattari’s Becoming-animal and Buber’s I-Thou Encounters to create a conceptual metaphor that I call A Becoming Encounter. Through an arts-based methodology, the production and examination of several art objects (my own and others), and the ways in which they relate to the lived experience of animals, (using Lefebvre and content analysis), a theoretical framework is developed aimed at informing future representation and shaping future relationships with nonhuman animals and environments. Toward A Becoming Encounter is a step toward an anti-anthropocentric ethics of representation and a way of being.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.Environmental studiesPhilosophyFine artsElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2022-12-14Philosophical ethologyField philosophyAnimal studiesCritical animal studiesArts-based researchArts informed researchMethodologyPhotographyNatural history programmingNature televisionNational geographicScatter methodologyPrintmakingSittingBeingCinematic spacePolitical economy of representation