Human error: species-being and media machines
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Introduction : the human element -- Bear life : tracing an opening in grizzly man -- Zooicide : animal love and human justice -- After the beep : answering machines and creaturely life -- The war on terra : from political economy to libidinal ecology -- Conclusion : human remain…
What exactly is the human element separating humans from animals and machines? The common answers that immediately come to mind--like art, empathy, or technology--fall apart under close inspection. Dominic Pettman argues that it is a mistake to define such rigid distinctions in …
In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350 , Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Traditionally, it was held that medieval thinkers ascribed rationality to humans while de…
In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350 , Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Traditionally, it was held that medieval thinkers ascribed rationality to humans while de…
In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Traditionally, it was held that medieval thinkers ascribed rationality to humans while den…
"Un tigre du Bengale, qui barbote anxieusement dans une petite piscine en plastique durant l'été et que l'on nourrit de viande de supermarché, est-il toujours un tigre? En examinant l'existence troublée d'animaux réputés sauvages, mais vivant désormais de conditions domestiques …
Un chimpanzé accro à la pornographie, amateur de bière et friand de cheeseburgers, un jeune condor élevé en chambre noire par une marionnette, ou encore un tigre borgne sous pilule contraceptive, voilà quelques-unes des existences postnaturelles qui hantent une zone grise de nos…
"Spanish Thinking about Animals brings together prominent scholars working on the expanding field of animal studies in Spain from a variety of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, thus providing an interdisciplinary look at the animal question to an English-spe…
"Spanish Thinking about Animals brings together prominent scholars working on the expanding field of animal studies in Spain from a variety of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, thus providing an interdisciplinary look at the animal question to an English-spe…
"Spanish Thinking about Animals brings together prominent scholars working on the expanding field of animal studies in Spain from a variety of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, thus providing an interdisciplinary look at the animal question to an English-spe…
Are animals capable of wonder? Can they be said to possess language and reason? What can animals teach us about how to live well? How can they help us to see the limitations of human civilization? Is it possible to draw firm distinctions between humans and animals? And how might…
Plato's pigs -- Aristotle's wonderful animals -- Cynicism's dogs -- Jainism's birds -- Plutarch's grunter -- Descartes' beast-machine -- Kant's elephants -- Bentham's suffering animal -- Nietzsche's overhuman animal -- Derrida's cat -- Adams's absent referent -- Plumwood's croco…