ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the mediation of arthropod experience, the deployment of similitude in the form of gendered and moral norms, and whether or not a praying mantis can intervene in our thinking about ethical boundaries. This chapter explores how questions of animal agency arise through alternative narratives of human failure to ‘control’ other animals during a production, and how this might open the possibility of empathetic imagining at a site of commodified anthropomorphism.
