List of figures Contributors Preface Sean Cubitt Acknowledgements Introduction Steven Shakespeare, Claire Molloy and Charlie Blake Part I: Animality: Boundaries and Definitions 1. Incidents in the Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2.Being a Known Animal Claire Molloy 3. Beyond the Pain Principle Giovanni Aloi Part II: Representing Animality 4. What We Can Do: Art Methodologies and Parities in Meeting Bryndis Snæbjornsdóttir and Mark Wilson 5. Horse-Crazy Girls: Alternative Embodiments and Socialities Natalie Corinne Hansen 6. Writing Relations: the Lobster, the Orchid, the Primrose, You, Me, Chaos and Literature Lucile Desblache Part III: Thinking Beyond the Divide 7. Affective Animal: Bataille, Lascaux and the Mediatization of the Sacred Felicity Colman 8. Levinas, Bataille and the Theology of Animal Life Donald L. Turner 9. Degrees of ‘Freedom': Humans as Primates in Dialogue with Hans urs von Balthasar Celia Deane-Drummond Part IV: Animal- Human- Machine- God 10. Inhuman Geometries: Aurochs and Angels and The Refuge of Art Charlie Blake 11. Articulating the Inhuman: God, Animal, Machine Steven Shakespeare 12. Transforming the Human Body Gareth Jones and Maja Whitaker Index
Explores the implications of our animal origins and posthuman futures for our understanding of our humanity and our relations with other species.
Claire Molloy is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics,
History, Media & Communication at Liverpool Hope University, UK and
a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She has published
on anthropomorphism, representations of animals in videogames and
literature and dangerous dogs, media and risk. She is the author of
Memento (EUP 2010) and Popular Media and Animal Ethics (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2011) and co-editor of American Independent Cinema:
Indie, Indiewood and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Steven Shakespeare is Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope
University and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His
publications include The Inclusive God (co authored with Hugh
Rayment-Pickard, SCM, 2006), Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical
Introduction (SPCK, 2007) and Derrida and Theology (T and T Clark,
2009).
This fascinating collection of essays is often challenging and
always engaging.Drawing on an astonishing breadth of approaches
this book offers a stimulating exploration of what it means to be
both embodied human and animal in an increasingly post-human world.
From the opening chapter with its provocative idea of handing
animals tools for their own, much needed, revolution through to the
final chapter which unsettlingly forces the reader to consider
human-technological melding, this book will force to you see - and
think about the world - differently.
*Nik Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Flinders University,
Australia*
The chapters in this incisive collection offer important challenges
to anthropocentric prejudices - just as the title promises, readers
are taken "beyond human." Vivid, passionate, ethically-charged
critical writing embodies resistance to fixed ideas that diminish
other animals. Boundaries are contested and conventions are
transgressed as these writers celebrate a consciousness that
displaces man as the measure of all things. This memorable and
important compilation of scholarship creatively advances the agenda
of human-animal studies.
*Randy Malamud, Professor and Associate Chair, Modern Literature,
Ecocriticism, and Cultural Studies, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, USA*
This is a fascinating collection of thoughtfully subversive essays,
which range over art and philosophy, science and literature,
evolution and ethics, the sacred and the divine. Bringing into
creative contact the pressing questions of, on the one hand,
animals and animality and, on the other, technology and
transhumanism, they urge the reader to move beyond humanist
hang-ups, beyond anthroponormative assumptions, indeed, beyond the
human.
*Tom Tyler, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Culture, Oxford
Brookes University, UK*
Taken together, the essays in this collection offer a persuasive
argument for what should count in crafting a politics for
transitional animals and their reciprocal others.
*Culture Machine, July 2012*
This wide-ranging volume explores the historical and futural limits
of the human subject: its constitutive animality and its
technological transformation … [T]he collection’s distinctiveness
is in the way it combines the earthly concerns of “the animal turn”
with more otherworldly discourses, such as the oft-ignored
reflections of theologians, and the technoscientific fantasies and
realities of transhumanists … Alongside its intersection of themes
and multidisciplinarity, a distinguishing strength of the book is
that it does not shirk the question of human distinctiveness …
Ultimately, it collects a series of intriguing and provocative
forays that suggest and mark out new terrains for scholarship in
the theoretical humanities.
*Anthrozoös*
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