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Touch and Restriction: On the Human-Animal Interface Climate crisis mass extinction show need to reshape our understanding of human culture in relation non-human lifeforms. The article considers touch as a point where border between humans other species may be renegotiated. Three supplementary modes thought, which combine explanation, speculation, imagination, are interrogated terms how they each deal with tactility cross-species interaction: philosophy, mythical representations literature art, documentary film. is used common concept for bodies remain distinct from while also being able connect other. First, I present interface conceptualized general by philosophers like Derrida, Nancy Harman, animals particulars thinkers Wood Michaux. Then, relate discussion two motifs, focusing on instances erotic across lines, have been represented visual art: Leda swan, Pasiphaë bull. Finally, move films: Robinson Devor’s Zoo (2007) Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Unser täglich Brot (2005). idea zoosexual intercourse contrasted distanced violence industrial keeping animals. suggest possibility communion otherwise negated late-modern capitalism.