A philosophy that prioritizes human agency and thought. Humanism was the defining intellectual culture of the Renaissance, and continued to influence modern European Enlightenment values foregrounding individualism and rationalism. In more recent thought, post-humanist philosophers critique human-centered subjectivity (anthropocentrism) while challenging the narrowly-defined categories of autonomy and rationality—which themselves coevolved with many forms of prejudice, like scientific racism and eugenics. Post-humanist, other-than-human, and more-than-human approaches aim to dismantle human-centered ways of knowing—which replicate colonial and modernist frameworks—instead exploring alternative forms of autonomy and consciousness (see Other Life-Formings, Logics of Sense, The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea).