Animals and Animality

Becoming-Grizzly: Bodily Molecularity and the Animal that Becomes

by Astrida Neimanis

"Strange Kinship" and Ascidian Life: 13 Repetitions

by Astrida Neimanis

In Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume IX, Issue 1/2, 2011 (ISSN1948-352X)

What might it mean to engage in ethical relations with other animals? What choreographies or constellations of affect,... more What might it mean to engage in ethical relations with other animals? What choreographies or constellations of affect, prohibition, connection, care, incorporation, facilitation, ignorance, conservation, curiosity, or other modes of interbeing might guide me, a distinctly human being, concerned with ―living well‖ with other-than-human animals? Beginning with the whale, but moving to the sea squirt, in this article I suggest that while an animal ethics based on affinity might be an important starting point for cultivating such relations, it is unable to capture the complexity of the ways in which human and other animal bodies intersect. Instead, we might begin taking stock of these ―strange kinships‖ by attending to the ways in which we repeat one another, but differently. But such inventories also require adequate ways of repeating these modes of interbeing in textual practice.

Becoming-Grizzly: Bodily Molecularity and the Animal that Becomes

by Astrida Neimanis

"Strange Kinship" and Ascidian Life: 13 Repetitions

by Astrida Neimanis

In Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume IX, Issue 1/2, 2011 (ISSN1948-352X)

What might it mean to engage in ethical relations with other animals? What choreographies or constellations of affect,... more What might it mean to engage in ethical relations with other animals? What choreographies or constellations of affect, prohibition, connection, care, incorporation, facilitation, ignorance, conservation, curiosity, or other modes of interbeing might guide me, a distinctly human being, concerned with ―living well‖ with other-than-human animals? Beginning with the whale, but moving to the sea squirt, in this article I suggest that while an animal ethics based on affinity might be an important starting point for cultivating such relations, it is unable to capture the complexity of the ways in which human and other animal bodies intersect. Instead, we might begin taking stock of these ―strange kinships‖ by attending to the ways in which we repeat one another, but differently. But such inventories also require adequate ways of repeating these modes of interbeing in textual practice.

Cyborg spaces and monstrous places: critical geographic engagements with Harawayan theory

by Emma Roe

Co-Authored with MW Wilson, M Hickey, J Craine, L Fawcett, A Oberhauser, T Warkentin Published in Aether. The Journal of Media Geography 8 (A), 42-67

Donna Haraway’s contribution to the theorization of feminist, post-structural and radical geographies has been... more Donna Haraway’s contribution to the theorization of feminist, post-structural and radical geographies has been immense, and critical scholars working across the spectrum have drawn on her work as part of larger projects rethinking the epistemological and ontological foundations of modern geography.
The purpose of this conversation, held at the 2010 aag meetings in Washington, D.C., was to bring together a diverse field of geographers who are currently engaging with Haraway's work. We hoped to foster this conference space in order to share research and to grapple with the possibilities and limitations of Harawayian thought as it has and continues to open
up new spaces across the discipline – both theoretically and practically. To that end, we welcomed panelists that engage with any aspect of Haraway's work, and encouraged participation from a wide variety of geographic sub-fields, including, but not limited to: anti-essentialist feminist research praxis, cyborg politics, relational ontologies, hybrid epistemologies, impure landscapes, god-trickery, inappropriate/d others, companion species,
and (non)human/techno-bio-nature-science relationships.

The Tiger and the Theodolite: George Coleman's Dream of Extinction

by Kevin Chua

FOCAS: Forum on Contemporary Art and Society 6, Singapore, 124-49 (republished in Broadsheet, vol. 36, no. 2)

Life is Inherently Expressive: A Merleau-Pontian Response to Darwin's _The Expression of Emotions_

by Kym Maclaren

Published in: Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning
Merleau-Ponty’s Thought 7 (2005): 241-261.

"The Equitable Eye: On Creaturely Life in the Films of Betty Leirner"

by Anat Pick

Catalogue essay, Betty Leirner Retrospective, Cinemateca Brasileira, São Paolo, September 2010

Two Lefts

by Peter Bratsis

The Lion and the Leopard in the Bible

by Pavel Stefanov

published in IKON. Casopis za ikonografske studije. Journal of the Iconographic Studies [Rijeka], 2, 2009, 47-52.

Unravels the literal, symbolic and prophetic meanings of the images of the lion and the leopard in the Bible. Their... more Unravels the literal, symbolic and prophetic meanings of the images of the lion and the leopard in the Bible. Their connotation is ambivalent. These beasts are hated and hunted but on the other hand they evoke the power and judgment of God and his Messiah.

Ewe Robot -- from 'Philip K. Dick and Philosophy'

by Alf Seegert

Published in the 2011 anthology 'Philip K. Dick and Philosophy'.

"The Strategic Unity of Heidegger's The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics"

by Kate Withy

Forthcoming in the Southern Journal of Philosophy

This paper unifies the disparate analyses in Heidegger’s lecture course, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics:... more This paper unifies the disparate analyses in Heidegger’s lecture course, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, in a single therapeutic and philosophical project. By taking seriously the text’s claim to lead us towards authenticity, I show how Heidegger’s analysis of boredom works together with his comparative analysis of man and animal to diagnose and lead us out of our contemporary complacency about being. This reading puts both analyses in a new light, reveals the hidden strategic unity of the lecture course, and brings out the therapeutic dimension of Heidegger’s phenomenology.

2006 Introduction. In Animais na Pré-história e arqueologia da Península Ibérica. Actas do IV Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular (Faro, 14 a 19 de Setembro de 2004), pp. 13-14. Promontoria Monográfica 03. Series editor: Nuno Ferreira Bicho; Universidade do Algarve: Faro

by Estella Weiss-Krejci

co-authored with Cidália Duarte

Jewish Virtue Ethics and Compassion for Animals: A Model from the Musar Movement

by Geoffrey Claussen

CrossCurrents 61, no. 2 (2011): 208-216.

Ferality Tales

by Greg Garrard

Draft essay for submission to 'The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism'.

Feral animals are of interest from a number of disciplinary perspectives: animal rights and environmentalism, which... more Feral animals are of interest from a number of disciplinary perspectives: animal rights and environmentalism, which argue over their ecological impact and means of population control; evolutionary biology, within which competing models of domestication and co-evolution vie for acceptance; and literary criticism, which is in the process of being fundamentally reshaped by animal studies and ecocriticism. This essay is an attempt to use all these disciplines to help understand the reality and fictions concerning an intimate and abandoned creature: the feral dog.

Stimulus-Response Relations and Organic Unity in Hegel and Schelling

by Sebastian Rand

Forthcoming in International Yearbook of German Idealism, Bd. VIII

Organism, Normativity, Plasticity: Kant, Canguilhem, Malabou

by Sebastian Rand

Forthcoming in Continental Philosophy Review. Please cite published version when available.

Animal Subjectivity and the Nervous System in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature

by Sebastian Rand

Published in Portuguese, English version available here

Flora and Fauna in Japanese Buddhist Cosmology

by Kevin Taylor

Forthcoming publication:
"Classifying the Inhuman: Flora and Fauna in Japanese Buddhist Cosmology." Proceedings from the 2011 Uehiro CrossCurrents Philosophy Conference. Eds. Ian Sullivan, Laura Specker and Cindy Scheopner. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011.

La teoría de la "conexión de la violencia" y la necesidad de la investigación antropológica

by Ana Cristina Ramirez

Publicado en periódico La Voz de Michoacán. Suplemento Identidad,  3 y 10 de septiembre de 2009