A group for those interested in all aspects of animal studies, from antiquity to the modern era.
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Jonathan Basile deposited Kant’s Parasite: Sublime Biodeconstruction in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIn Kant’s Critique of Judgment, his exploration of how something like life (organized matter) can appear to the faculties of a finite consciousness makes life as possible as it is impossible. A passing reference Kant makes to the idea that every organ of an organism can be seen as a parasite is taken as a lever to deconstruct his notion of…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited How the Other Half-Lives: Life as Identity and Difference in Bennett and Schrödinger in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis essay deconstructs Jane Bennett’s and Erwin Schrödinger’s theories of life to demonstrate the untenability of defining life on the basis of either identity (relation to self) or difference (relation to other). Because the living thing is undecidably self and other, its traditional bond to the self-relation of teleology is untenable. Yet reli…[Read more]
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Scout Calvert deposited Ready for the Robot: Bovines in the Integrated Circuit in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA typical cow on Earth at the turn of the 21st century is figured as an information-generating machine. She generates data from the time she is born, at every developmental milestone, with the birth, growth, and death of each of her calves, including birth, weaning, and yearling weight, calving ease, and feeding data that help farmers compute…[Read more]
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Helen Kopnina deposited Wild Animals and Justice: The Case of the Dead Elephant in the Room in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoDiscussing ecological justice in conservation and environmental ethics.
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Amy Nelson deposited What the dogs did: animal agency in the Soviet manned space flight programme in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis paper examines the agency of the dogs used to develop the Soviet manned space flight programme by considering what the dogs did as experimental subjects, as dog technologies, and as individual dogs in the context of the historically conditioned practices of Soviet science. Looking at how Soviet space researchers refined Pavlovian behaviourism…[Read more]
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Jean Marie Carey deposited Bill Viola: Life After Death at Stavanger Kunstmuseum in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA review of the Bill Viola exhibition at the Stavanger Kunstmuseum including Man Searching For Immortality / Woman Searching for Eternity (2013) and Tristan’s Ascension (2005) in conversation.
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Raluca Farcas started the topic Dissertation Research! in the discussion
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoGood afternoon,
My name is Raluca Farcas and I am an Illustration student at Birmingham City University, UK. I am currently working on my dissertation which revolves around the symbolism of birds in art through centuries and up to the present day and also questions the relationship between humans and birds and how that affected the way they were…[Read more] -
Jeannette Vaught deposited A Question of Sex: Cloning, Culture, and Legitimacy Among American Quarter Horses in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoQuarter Horses are considered one of the earliest and most enduringly popular breeds of horse that is “native” to the United States.
The American Quarter Horse Association formed as a breed registry in 1940, and set clear rules for what horses could be called Quarter Horses in its stud book. Recently, after several years of legal bac…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited “Other minds than ours” – A controversial discussion on the limits and possibilities of comparative psychology in the light of Lloyd Morgan’s work in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoC. Lloyd Morgan is mostly known for Morgan’s canon (1894), still a popular and frequently quoted principle in comparative psychology and ethology. There has been a fair amount of debate on the canon’s interpretation, function, and value regarding the research on animal minds, usually referring to it as an isolated principle. In this paper we…[Read more]
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Jonathan L. Clark deposited Labourers or Lab Tools? Rethinking the Role of Lab Animals in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoA discussion of whether it makes sense to say that “lab animals” are engaged in a form of labor.
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paul bali deposited animal research at DRDC Downsview – a hidden history in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoan overview of military research involving pigs, rats, and rabbits at DRDC Downsview [Toronto], from 2004 -2007.
appendix includes military docs secured thru an ATIP request by Animal Alliance Canada.
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paul bali deposited gender & Judaism: in three popular texts in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agogender & Judaism in A Serious Man [Coen Bros, 2009], An American Dream [Norman Mailer, 1965] and the Pericope Adulterae.
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Jeannette Vaught replied to the topic Animal Studies: Key Readings in the discussion
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHello Sara! I’m a fellow HC Summer Camper, a little behind on our second challenge. I’m glad to see a fellow animalista in the summer camp group! Are you subscribed to H-Animal? There’s a lot of excellent discussion there, as well as a wealth of posted syllabi and current books/articles. It would be great to help get better discussion goin…[Read more]
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Sara Santos started the topic Animal Studies: Key Readings in the discussion
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoHello everyone!
HCommons novice here and so excited to join the conversation on animal and environmental studies! I’m currently developing my dissertation project, much of which deals with human/nonhuman relationships and environmental collapse in contemporary Global North/South fiction. One thing I’d be interested to know is what are three key…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Milieus und Akteure in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoDie Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Im Mittelpunkt stehen bislang die Frage nach dem Geist der Tiere, das Problem des Tier-Mensch-Unterschiedes und die Themenfelder der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet und ergänzt es dur…[Read more]
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paul bali deposited an ad for devouring everything in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agocarnism & consumerism; eco-apocalypse; product placement; copyright
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Jeannette Vaught deposited Materia Medica: Technology, Vaccination, and Antivivisection in Jazz Age Philadelphia in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoDuring the 1920s, the Philadelphia-based American Antivivisection Society turned to racialized metaphors in its circulating periodical, the Starry Cross, to excoriate the expanding practice of vaccination. Since vaccines were then made from animal-derived serums, the involvement of antivivisectionists in antivaccine arguments is not surprising.…[Read more]
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Jeannette Vaught deposited Pageants, Po’ Boys, and Pork on a Stick: Documenting the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis photoessay documents the 82nd Annual Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, which took place in Morgan City, Louisiana over Labor Day weekend in 2018. It contains photographs of the festival, including images of pageant queens, food vendors, and the Blessing of the Fleet. The essay documents the authors’ experience of the festival, and c…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Die methodologische Signatur von Forschungsprogrammen in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoDie Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. In ihrem Mittelpunkt standen bislang Fragen nach dem Geist der Tiere, der Tier-Mensch-Unterschied oder Probleme der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet mit dem Ziel einer strukturierten Un…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Kulturelle und ethische Dimensionen methodischer Tier-Mensch-Interaktionen in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoDie Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. In ihrem Mittelpunkt standen bislang Fragen nach dem Geist der Tiere, der Tier-Mensch-Unterschied oder Probleme der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet mit dem Ziel einer strukturierten Un…[Read more]
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