This paper investigates evolving practices in arts-based research through the lens of Posthuman Arts-Based Inquiry (PABI) and its principle of experimental recombinatoriality, referred to here as “riffology.” By questioning anthropocentric assumptions, PABI takes into account human and  nonhuman forces alike, opening a more expansive approach to creativity and knowledge production. Drawing on DeleuzoGuattarian philosophy, new materialist perspectives, and post-qualitative research, we position art-making as an ontological event rather than mere representation. In doing so, PABI disrupts established boundaries within arts-based research, foregrounding shared agencies and ethical obligations that extend across human, technological, and ecological domains. Through concrete examples and theoretical grounding, this paper illustrates how PABI reimagines creative inquiry amid planetary crises, ultimately offering a posthuman critical pedagogy with the potential to transform both educational and societal landscapes.

Keywords:  Posthuman arts-based inquiry (PABI), posthuman critical pedagogy, DeleuzoGuattarian philosophy, experimental recombinatoriality, assemblage theory, arts-based research (ABR), ontological shifts, Anthropocene