A Polemical Companion to Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates Hispanic Issues On Line Debates 7 (2016)  2 Telling Worldly Stories in a More-than-Human World (or How to Overcome Humanist Orthodoxies in Iberian Cultural Criticism) Daniel Ares López The turn of the twenty-first century has seen a proliferation of new interdisciplinary fields and research agendas—often cutting across the humanities, the social sciences, and the biological sciences—that attempt to account for, and critically evaluate, past and present relationships among humans and other organisms with which we share the Earth’s biosphere. In this way, the rise of animal studies has given way to what some have called the animal turn: a new post-Darwinian reconsideration of both the animality of humans and the material, symbolic, moral, and political status conferred to other animal species in Western modernity. Much of the theoretical and philosophical work about animality and animals (famously posited by Derrida as “the question of the animal”) has also been framed through the more inclusive term post-humanism. This concept, which became a general term to refer to a variety of non-anthropocentric movements and schools of thought, conveys the pressing necessity for a redefinition of the human that keeps up with contemporary developments in philosophy (in ontology and epistemology), social/cultural theory (in biopolitics, animal studies, actor-network theory, and the emerging field of new materialism), literary criticism, anthropology (as reflected in the con- cepts of multi-naturalism and multi-species ethnography), as well as in bi- ology, bio-technology, and environmental studies. All the het- erogeneous ramifications of this sizeable and rapidly growing intellectual work amounts to a conception of the world as something radically more- than-human. In this (our) more-than-human world the modern foundational divides between nature and culture, material and symbolic, natural and artificial, society and its external “environment,” and human and animal either have ceased to function or are revealed as the historical product of anthropocentric ideological delusions.