1st Edition

Being Human Between Animals and Technology 

Edited By Ron Broglio, Frederick Young Copyright 2015
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Technology and animals often serve as the boundaries by which we define the human. In this issue contributors explore these categories as necessary supplements or as porous membranes which disturb the scaffolding of how the human is constructed. A lingering question throughout is whether we have ever been human or if such a category is a non-localizable ideal or perhaps a misnomer. In this... Read more

1. Introduction Ron Broglio

2. Animal Spirits: Philosomorphism and the Background Revolts of Cinema John Mullarkey

3. Speculative Realism in Chains: A Love Story Marcel O’Gorman

4. A Picture Book of Invisible Worlds: Semblances of Insects and Humans in Jakob von Uexküll’s Laboratory Stephen Loo and Undine Sellbach

5. New Tricks Tom Tyler

6. Apophatic Animality: Lautréamont, Bachelard, and the Bliss of Metamorphosis Eugene Thacker

7. Honeycomb Series Allison Hunter

8. Insects and Canaries: Medianatures and Aesthetics of the Invisible Jussi Parikka

9. Tolstoy’s Bestiary: Animality and Animosity in The Kreutzer Sonata Dominic Pettman

10. A Global Cinematic Zone of Animal and Technology Seung-hoon Jeong

11. Doing and Saying Stupid Things in the Twentieth Century: Bêtise and Animality in Deleuze and Derrida Bernard Stiegler

12. Five Heraldic Animals (for Eduardo Kac) Steve Baker

13. After Animality, Before the Law: Interview with Cary Wolfe Ron Broglio

Biography

Ron Broglio is Director of Graduate Studies at Arizona State University, USA, and Senior Scholar at the university’s Global Institute of Sustainability. He is author of Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art and Technologies of the Picturesque.

Frederick Young is faculty at the University of California, Merced, USA. He collaborates with conceptual artists and is working on a theoretical treatise on revolution, animality and technics. He is the author of Toward an Ethics of the Political and has published on Critical Theory and Art Practice.