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      Between Animals and Technology

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      Being Human book

      Between Animals and Technology
      Edited ByRon Broglio, Frederick Young
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 20 October 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315749822
      Pages 192
      eBook ISBN 9781315749822
      Subjects Humanities
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      Broglio, R., & Young, F. (Eds.). (2014). Being Human: Between Animals and Technology  (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315749822

      ABSTRACT

      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 collection of essays, internationally known theorists muddle the categorical boundaries such that animals and technologies become necessary components rather than limits for what it means to be human. They examine a range of subjects, including apophatic animality, critical media objects-to-think-with, biosemiotic insect resonances, the monstrous and horrific which dislodges our cultural animals, and the problem of thinking of animality as stupidity. Novels, films, digital objects, scientific laboratories, philosophical texts, animals on the road and in the fields serve as sites for inquiry. The result of these investigations is the spectral possibility that we are not the humans we make ourselves out to be.

      This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|2 pages

      Editorial Introduction

      EDITORIAL
      ByRon Broglio

      chapter |7 pages

      broglio

      chapter 2|2 pages

      Animal Spirits: Philosomorphism and the background revolts of cinema

      ByJohn Mullarkey

      chapter |9 pages

      mullarkey

      chapter |1 pages

      do look back: animist spirits and the revolt of the background

      chapter |7 pages

      mullarkey

      chapter 3|2 pages

      Speculative Realism in Chains: A love story

      ByMarcel O’Gorman

      chapter |11 pages

      o’gorman

      chapter 4|2 pages

      A Picture Book of Invisible Worlds: Semblances of insects and humans in Jakob von Uexküll’s laboratory

      ByStephen Loo, Undine Sellbach

      chapter |7 pages

      loo& sellbach

      chapter |1 pages

      picturing the technique of nature

      chapter |10 pages

      loo& sellbach

      chapter 5|2 pages

      New Tricks

      ByTom Tyler

      chapter |16 pages

      tyler

      chapter 6|2 pages

      Apophatic Animality: Lautréamont, Bachelard, and the bliss of metamorphosis

      ByEugene Thacker

      chapter |14 pages

      thacker

      chapter 7|2 pages

      Honeycomb Series

      ByAllison Hunter

      chapter |5 pages

      hunter

      chapter |1 pages

      images

      chapter 8|2 pages

      Insects and Canaries: Medianatures and aesthetics of the invisible

      ByJussi Parikka

      chapter |11 pages

      parikka

      chapter 9|2 pages

      Tolstoy’s Bestiary: Animality and animosity in The Kreutzer Sonata

      Dominic Pettman
      Byexhibit 1: the green-eyed monster dominic pettman

      chapter |7 pages

      pettman

      chapter |1 pages

      exhibit 11: the siren

      chapter |8 pages

      pettman

      chapter 10|2 pages

      A Global Cinematic Zone of Animal and Technology

      screen animals
      BySeung-Hoon Jeong

      chapter |17 pages

      jeong

      chapter 11|2 pages

      Doing and Saying Stupid Things in the Twentieth Century: Bêtise and animality in Deleuze and Derrida

      ByBernard Stiegler

      chapter |14 pages

      stiegler

      chapter 12|2 pages

      Five Heraldic Animals (for Eduardo Kac)

      Steve Baker
      Bysteve baker ANIMALS (FOR

      chapter |4 pages

      baker

      chapter |2 pages

      ANGELAKI

      chapter |7 pages

      broglio

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