The concept of posthuman encompasses a diversity of approaches ranging from new materialism to diffraction (Barad, 2007), affect (Massumi, 2015), new materialism (Bennett, 2010) or intra-action (Barad, 2007). As proposed by Barad (2007), Jackson and Mazzei (2012), or MacLure (2013), posthuman is more than a theoretical concept and has become a research method. In this sense, it relies on the denial of the subject-object duality and the role of the researcher as a source of knowledge. The rejection of a representationalist use of language (Barad, 2007), considered as a form of manipulation of reality from the outside, therefore leads to the search for new ways of obtaining research "data" (MacLure, 2013). In this context, arts and creativity become a key source for researchers. Aiming to redefine the foundations of research according to a posthuman approach, Jackson and Mazzei (2012; 2017) propose the term "thinking with theory", which they describe as "something that is to come; something that happens, paradoxically, in a moment that has already happened; something emergent, unpredictable, and always rethinkable and redoable" (Jackson & Mazzei, 2017, p. 720). This shift in the power relations that define the research process within a posthuman lens leads to new ways of understanding research, considered as a process and a "dynamic becoming" (Jackson & Mazzei, 2017). Therefore, research acquires the capacity to unsettle (MacLure, 2010). Poetry, sound, movement, play (Boldt & Leander, 2017; Hackett & Somerville, 2017; Hackett & Rautio, 2019) become ongoing ways of enacting research, based on creative forms of human and non-human assemblages. The dynamic nature of this concept of research, therefore, opens the door to 'actions' that can be carried out from arts and creativity. In them, intra-action of matter takes place and a new world is defined through experiences that combine visual arts, music, sound and any other forms of creation (Hackett, Pahl & Pool, 2017; Rousell & Fell, 2018). Due to the increasing amount of research from a posthuman view, our proposal consists in a systematic review of literature from the last ten years. Through this review we aim to define the main currents, perspectives and challenges in this field, and the multiple ways in which the posthuman body of theory is reconfigured and rebuilt.

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