ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ideas about humanness, alterity, alternative imaginaries and animation in relation to two odd pieces of animation; one presents itself as a nature film and the other features animated dolls. It examines the narrative and visual transbiological leaps that we have made in our understandings of terms like 'heterosexuality' and 'homosexuality', male and female, individual and community, in an age of artificial insemination, transsexuality and cloning. It proposes that popular culture has already imagined multiple alternatives to male and female, masculine and feminine, family and individuality and, that contemporary popular culture, specifically horror film and animation, can provide a rich archive for an alternative politics of embodiment, reproduction and non-reproduction. The chapter explores the notion of animation in much the way that Haraway and Franklin unpack the transbiological. Animation will mean variously: recent computer-generated cartoon imagery; ventriloquism, puppetry, liveliness.
