If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from their physical life-process.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Oh the inhumanities

There's a hot new blog I heard about called The Inhumanities run by Scu, Craig and, well, myself. We will collectively discuss texts of interest and importance to the animal studies community. Our first is to be Matthew Calarco's Zoographies. If you've read it then you know that it swiftly opens a lot of new ground in the Continental tradition's engagement with "the animal question." By "Continental tradition" I mean the big boys of the 20th C.: Heidegger, Agamben, Levinas, Derrida. If you haven't read it, hop on over to The Inhumanities and you can get both a synoptic and critical reading. It's going to be fun.

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