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This anti-orthesis serves as an understanding and speculative exploration of how we interact with our environment and networks, as well as a provocative tool for exploring the dualistic categories of objects and subjects.  This self-experience explores how our bodies are structured to understand the connections of our networks and to challenge conventional notions of how alternative body forms might alter our network of interactions and relationships. By preventing and abstracting everyday functions of the hands, this anti-orthesis causes a continuous restructuring of our perception and interaction with the environment, revealing the situatedness of human life realities, which enables awareness of other possible situatednesses and states.The interaction between human and object reveals the possibilities for action within our network and illuminates how our bodies and objects interact in a dynamic interplay of relationships. It aims to test the limits of the human body and questions the traditional master-servant dynamic between human and object. It provokes a re-evaluation of human agency and the agency of objects.