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Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns: thinking about otherness and the nature of human being; desiring communication across species difference; and interrogating the social and ethical consequences of changes in science and technology. We are living in a complex set of contradictory and conflicting relations with non-human animals. This book maps this complex terrain, arguing that we are better able to perceive options for a transformed politics if we perceive our various material relations with non-human animals within a deeper understanding of the functions of the category
How science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change. The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages
Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the 'question of the animal', challenging the philosophical idealism that has dogged the question by tracing how the politics of capital and of animal life impinge on one another in market cultures of the 20th and early 21st
The animal-rights organization PETA asked 'Are Animals the New Slaves?' in a controversial 2005 fundraising campaign; that same year, after the Humane Society rescued pets in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while black residents were neglected, some declared that white America cares more about
Those nonhuman beings called 'animals' pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when 'the other' can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and
Animal Architects masterfully investigates how the structure an animal builds reveals the inner workings of its mind. Beginning with instinct and the simple homes of solitary insects, and progressing to conditioning, the 'cognitive map,' and the role of planning and insight, James and Carol Gould
A fascinating and philosophical exploration of animal intelligence and the way animals communicate with each other, and
This whimsical and intriguing picture book explores the different roles of fatherhood in the animal kingdom. Readers will learn about various animal dads and their many different parenting skills: baby-sitting - an emperor penguin dad watches over the eggs for nine weeks while the mother searches
The first sustained exploration of the relations between cinematic time and animal life Focusing on a recent wave of international art cinema, Animal Worlds offers the first sustained analysis of the relations between cinematic time and animal life. Through an aesthetic of extended duration, films
Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the realm of
Written for animal researchers, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the design and statistical analysis of animal experiments. It has long been recognised that the proper implementation of these techniques helps reduce the number of animals needed. By using real-life examples to make them
More than a contest of wills representing professional and economic interests, the animal rights debate is also an enduring topic in normative ethical theory. 'Defending Animal Rights' addresses the key isues in this sometimes acrimonious
Discover the secrets of animal totems and their sacred, transformative powers.Among traditional Native Americans and other tribal peoples, totems are the enduring animal symbols that allow these peoples to explore the mysteries of life and the spirit world. from the graceful Antelope to the
Quirky, colourful guides to the horrible, shocking and disgusting aspects of
Explore the beauty and diversity of the animal world through more than 300 captivating images from across time and from every corner of the globe | Animal: Exploring the Zoological World is a visually stunning and broad-ranging survey that explores and celebrates humankind's ongoing fascination with
This handbook lays out the science behind how animals think, remember, create, calculate, and remember. It provides concise overviews on major areas of study such as animal communication and language, memory and recall, social cognition, social learning and teaching, numerical and quantitative
* A delightful and humorous book for pet and animal lovers * Features 88 Old Masters' style animal pictures and a portrait of a shy boy * Humorous and philosophical texts about different animal characters * From the Man behind 'Cat - Portraits of 88 Cats and 1 Zebra' and 'Dog - Portraits of 88 Dogs
The animal world is immensely diverse, and our understanding of it has been greatly enhanced by molecular biology and the study of evolution and development ('evo-devo'). Moreover, groundbreaking research on genes, and especially key families of genes such as the Homeobox genes which control the
This volume provides a general overview of the basic ethical and philosophical issues of animal rights. It asks questions such as: Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting modelsfor
The first volume to address the animal in Deleuze's work, looking at philosophy, aesthetics and ethics Becoming-animal is a key concept for Deleuze and Guattari; the ambiguous idea of the animal as human and nonhuman life infiltrates all of Deleuze's work. These 16 essays apply Deleuze's work to
The fifteenth anniversary of the hit science fiction podcast Escape Pod, featuring new and exclusive stories from today's bestselling writers. Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of cutting-edge science fiction from the hit podcast, Escape Pod. Escape Pod has been bringing the finest short fiction
Animal Eyes provides a comparative account of all known types of eye in the animal kingdom, outlining their structure and function with an emphasis on the nature of the optical systems and the physical principles involved in image formation. A universal theme throughout the book is the evolution
'A most important book that will change the way many of us look at animals--and, ultimately, at ourselves.' -- Chicago TribuneSince its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of 'speciesism'--our systematic disregard of nonhuman
The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 C risy conference entitled 'The Autobiographical Animal,' the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two
Focusing on research to introduce modern social psychology, Social Animal takes the patterns and motives of human behavior to analyze distinct topics like terrorism, conformity, obedience, politics, race relations, advertising, war, interpersonal attraction, and the power of religious