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abjection: of animal, 71, 112; and animality, 63–64, 75; defined, 171n37, 176n28; and nature, 139, 140–45; and violence, 73; of women, 75, 124
abolitionist approach, 174n5. See also Francione, Gary
Abraham, Nicolas and Torok, Maria, 111
Agamben, Giorgio, xviii, xxiii, 14, 16, 125; on anthropological machine, 43; on captivation, 33, 126; on history, 159n50, 175n23; and ticks, 172n49
“The Age of the World Picture” (Heidegger), 40
aggression: and civilization, 89–90; in Flush, 90–91, 92; and masculinity, 91. See also violence
animal: becoming, 101, 107–8, 112; being of, 27–34; being with, 150; vs. human, xxiv, 11, 27, 43, 110, 113–14, 121–22, 123, 125, 132–33, 157n10; idea of, 23; as machine, 29; as word, 26–27; visibility of, 25–26, 49
animal rights, 3–7; and cultural change, 61; and ethics, 16, 22; and language, 4, 5–7, 21; and suffering, 143
animal studies, xix–xx, 3–24, 112, 122; and the academy, 3–7; and agency, 57; and disability studies, xxiii, 118; and ethics, 6–7, 16–23; and ethnic studies, 3–4, 25; and feminism, 4–5; and language, 7–11, 17, 118; and posthumanism, 146; and trauma studies, 6, 17; and women’s studies, 3–4, 7, 25
animal welfare position, 135–36
animality, xv, xvi; and abjection, 63–64, 75; vs. animals, 16; vs. civilization, 78, 88–89; human, 34, 61, 69, 89, 99; in literature, 69–71; loss of, 12–13; and masculinity, 76–78; and memory, 78–80; and moral purity, 138; and Nazism, 168n26; and sexuality, 105, 124; and sovereignty, 132–33, 134; and technology, 175n23; in Viola video, 35–44; and violence, 148–49
Animals in Translation (Grandin), 119
anthropocentrism, 33, 69, 115; defined, 158n25; and domestication, 57, 59; and freedom, 140, 142, 143, 144; and humanism, xxii, 45, 150; and moral purity, 138; and pet keeping, 83, 90
anthropomorphism, xx, xxi, 164n31, 167n16; and agency, 57; vs. anthropodenial, 45, 58, 83; critical, 20, 47; and dog love, 85–86, 87; and empathy, 19–20, 69, 143, 148; in Flush, 82–83, 166n4; and rationality, 45
apes, 26, 134; and sign language, 4, 5, 6, 8. See also Chimp Portraits; chimpanzees; “A Report to an Academy”
“Archaic Torso of Apollo” (poem; Rilke), 174n29
Baker, Steve, 12, 13, 47, 107, 169n18, 170n25; on death, 105–6; on killing, 122, 131
The Beast in the Boudoir (Kete), 54
The Beast and the Sovereign (Derrida), 132–33
Beauvoir, Simone de, 82, 139
Black Beauty (Sewell), 100
the body, 13, 17, 64, 169n18; as animal, 29, 73; in Man and Dog, 77–78; vs. mind, 28; and shame, 139, 140, 142; in Viola video, 35, 37, 42
boundaries: animal vs. human, xxiv, 113–14, 121; and autism, 124; and feminist care tradition, 141; and identity, xxii, 109, 149; and mourning, 115; and pet keeping, 167n15; postmodern, 106
Bouvard and Pécuchet (Flaubert), xvi
British Animal Studies Group, 112
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 81, 82, 88, 170n22. See also Flush
“Can the Subaltern Speak?” (Spivak), 5
captivation: and animal being, 33–34; and boredom, 36–37; and consciousness, 34; Heidegger on, 46, 126; in Viola video, 35, 43
Captive Beauty: Zoo Portraits (Noelker), 46–47
cats: and Derrida, 20, 21, 22, 44–45, 95, 144; domestication of, 60; gaze of, xvii, 20, 40, 44; and human animality, 61; in literature, 69, 70, 71, 108–11
Chardin, Jean-Siméon, 104
Chimp Portraits 2002–2006 (exhibition; Noelker), xx, 44–49, 148
civilization: and animal, 91–92; vs. culture, 77–79, 165n44; vs. dog love, 88, 90, 96; in Flush, 87–94; and smell, 94–96; vs. women, 88, 90, 93
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud), 89, 94
Clutton-Brock, Juliet, 55
consciousness: animal, 29, 30, 32, 35, 36; and attunement, 34; vs. Being, 32–33; and the body, 28, 37; and culture, 84; and language, 154n24; limits of, 158n21; screening by, 119–20, 148
The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication (Budiansky), 56
“Crazy?” (“Fou?”; Maupassant), 69, 70–71
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), 67–68
culture: animal, 23, 157n12; vs. biology, 37; bourgeois, 54–55, 73, 76, 78; vs. civilization, 77–79, 165n44; and consciousness, 84; morality of, 78; and mourning, 112; vs. nature, xxiv, 18, 30, 33, 59, 139, 149; and subjectivity, 25; Western, 5
death: animal, xxi–xxiii, 100, 116–27; animal vs. human, 121–22; deflection of, xxii, 116–22; Derrida on, 105, 116, 126, 169n17; and ethics, 102–3, 106, 116–17; in Flush, 99, 101, 102, 104, 116; and the gaze, 121–22; knowledge of, 95, 101, 122; and naming, 104; and pets, 61; rituals of, xxii, 99–115; smell of, 95; and the sublime, 170n23; unmourned, xxii, 111–13, 137; in Viola video, 37–38, 44
Death in Venice (Mann), 73, 76
Deleuze, Gilles, xvi, xx, xxii, 16, 21, 133; on becoming animal, 14–15, 101, 107, 108, 110; on boundaries, 109; on domestication, 56, 60; on pets, 53–54, 114
Derrida, Jacques, xv–xviii, xx, xxii, 72, 147; on animal, 26–27, 113; and bêtise, 133, 134; on boundaries, 109; and cat, 20, 21, 22, 44–45, 95, 144; on death, 105, 116, 126, 169n17; and ethics, 21, 23; and Flush, 87; on gender, 174n8, 177n44; on Heidegger, 31–32, 120–21; on human sovereignty, 132–33; on killing, 117; LaCapra on, 172n52; on language, 120–21, 153n12, 167n19; and mourning, 114; on reaction vs. response, 155n44, 172n6; on sacrifice, 71; on shame, 141, 142; on thinking, 21, 27–28, 44. See also The Animal That Therefore I Am
dogs, 18, 19, 61, 62, 66, 69; categories of, 165n38; vs. civilization, 90; and culture, 84; domestication of, 57, 60; killing of, 126, 127; and language, 10, 11; and smell, 94–96; in Viola video, 41; world of, 31, 84. See also Disgrace; Flush; Man and Dog
domestication, xxi, 53–62; and animality, 79; and boundaries, 109; and empathy, 144; ethics of, 58–60; in Flush, 88, 92; Hitler on, 165n42; and madness, 70; in Man and Dog, 73, 78, 81; Marxism on, 57, 132; vs. moral purity, 138; and shame, 142; and suffering, 69; vs. wildness, 55–56
Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets (Tuan), 55
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals (Scully), 132
Empathic Vision (Bennett), 19
empathy, 155n46, 163nn21–22, 176n34; anthropomorphic, 19–20, 69, 143, 148; critical, 19–20; and death, 102; and domestication, 144; in feminism, 141; and madness, 69–71; in Mann, 77, 79; vs. philosophy, 65
ethics, xvii, xix, xx, xxiv, 26, 155n44, 156n61; and animal studies, 6–7, 16–23; and death, 102–3, 106, 116–17; in Disgrace, 134–35; of domestication, 58–60; and empathy, 69; and feminism, xxiii, 141; and human vs. animal, 132; and humanism, 21–22; and killing, xxii, 117, 118, 131; and mourning, 112–15; and ticks, 172n49
feminism: and animal studies, 4–5; care tradition in, 141; and ethics, xix, 22, 141; and human xxiii, 139–45; and language, 17; material, xxiii–xxiv, 139–40; saming in, 82; and technology, 18; of Woolf, 81–82. See also women
The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics (Donovan and Adams), 141–42
“Fifth Reverie” (Rousseau), 32
Fire, Water, Breath (video; Viola), 35
Flush (Woolf), xxi, xxii, 60, 62, 81–94, 107, 114; anthropomorphism in, 82–83, 166n4; civilization in, 87–94; death in, 99, 101, 102, 104, 116; smell in, 95–96
Fontenay, Elizabeth de, 83, 150
Freud, Sigmund, xxi, xxii, 63, 93, 107; on human animality, 61, 69, 89; and masculinity, 91; on melancholia, 109–10; and smell, 94–96
The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics (Heidegger), 34
Garber, Marjorie, 81, 113
The Gay Science (Nietzsche), 63
the gaze: animal, xvi, 21, 28, 33, 45, 65, 125; of artist, 40; of boredom, 36; of cat, xvii, 20, 40, 44; of chimpanzee, xx, 47, 49; and death, 121–22, 125; and dog love, 86–87; of monkey, 39; mutual human-animal, 60; in Viola video, 39–40
gender, xviii, xxi, xxii, xxiv, 157n15; Derrida on, 174n8, 177n44; and ego, 110; and identity, 61; in Orlando, 84, 85; in “Shared at Dawn,” 108–11; and species, 86, 91; and violence, 71. See also femininity; masculinity; women
Genealogy of Morals (Nietzsche), 79
General History of Quadrupeds (Bewick), 55
Great Ape Project, 4, 5, 21
Great Ape Trust (Iowa), 8
grief. See mourning
Guattari, Félix, xxi, xxii, 16; on becoming animal, 14–15, 101, 107, 108; on boundaries, 109; on domestication, 56, 60; on pet keeping, 53–54, 114
Gulf of Mexico oil spill, xxiv
Haraway, Donna, xxi, 73, 161n21, 177n46; on boundaries, xviii, 106; on curiosity, 144 vs. dualism, 140; on ethics, xxii, 16, 18–19, 22; on killing, 117; on naturecultures, xvii, 139; on response, 155n44, 172n6; on shame, 144; on symbiogenesis, 138–39; on training, 58–59
Hearne, Vicki, xxi, 19, 62, 168n32, 177n46; and freedom, 144; on language, 9, 15; and Man and Dog, 73, 74; and shame, xxiii–xxiv, 144; on suffering, 143; and training, 9–11, 58–59, 60
Heidegger, Martin, xv–xvi, xx, xxiii, 147, 158n25; on animal being, 29, 30, 31, 33–34; on boredom, 36; on captivation, 46, 126; on death, 95, 101, 106, 116, 169n17; vs. Derrida, 121; and killing, 124; vs. Rilke, 119; on science, 40–41; on world forming, 37, 158n33
history, 26, 33, 79, 159n36, 163n22; Agamben on, 159n50, 175n23; and agency, 56–57; and moral purity, 138; in Viola video, 37, 38; and Woolf, 83
horses, xviii, 60, 61, 62, 67, 69; death of, 100–103; domestication of, 58; and language, 10, 11; and Tolstoy, 170n22. See also “Strider: The Story of a Horse”
How We Became Posthuman (Hayles), 18
human: vs. animal, xxiv, 11, 27, 43, 110, 113–14, 121–22, 123, 125, 132–33, 157n10; animality in, 34, 61, 69, 89, 99; idea of, 23
humanism, xvii, xx, xxiv, 24, 29, 57, 152n2; and anthropocentrism, xxii, 45, 150; and empathy, 155n46; and ethics, 21–22; of Heidegger, xvi, 121; and killing animals, xxii, 117; and posthumanism, 149, 150; and screening, 148; and sight, 45; and technology, 147
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (video; Viola), xx, 35–44, 104, 147
identity: and animal rights, 5–6; and becoming animal, 108; and boundaries, xxii, 109, 149; and death, 104; and empathy, 176n34; in Flush, 81, 85; and mourning, 108, 112; and pets, 53–54; and species, 61, 110
“The Jaguar” (poem; Hughes), 120
Kafka, Franz, xx, 5–6, 7, 15, 16, 134. See also “A Report to an Academy”
Kant, Immanuel, 13, 18, 22, 42, 89, 91, 148; and animal being, 30, 31; vs. Hegel, 116
killing animals, 112, 113; aestheticized, xxii; and ethics, xviii, 117, 118, 131; and language, 122–23, 127; technology of, 123–25, 131
Killing Animals (Animal Studies Group), 122
Lacan, Jacques, 7, 38, 39, 40, 63, 157n10, 172n6; on language, 120, 153n12; on love, 86, 87; and mother, 111
language, xxiii, 56, 104, 111, 116, 140; animal, 4–6, 8, 23, 62, 153n12; and animal being, 28, 29, 30, 31; and animal rights, 4, 5–7, 21; and animal studies, 7–11, 17, 118; and animality, 11–16, 75; and assimilation, 5–6; and autism, 118–19; and consciousness, 154n24; Derrida on, 120–21, 153n12, 167n19; and dog love, 87; as imitation, 8, 9–10; and killing, 122–23, 127; and Man and Dog, 74; as obstacle, 121; sign, 4–6, 8; and training, 9–11, 19, 59. See also counterlinguistic turn
Lascaux cave paintings, 12, 105
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, xvi, 125
linguistic turn, 7, 11. See also counterlinguistic turn
The Lives of Animals (Coetzee), xix, 7, 30, 120
love, xviii, 9, 19; attentive, 141; in Flush, 91, 94; Lacan on, 86, 87; and violence, xviii, xxi–xxii, 70, 165n43. See also dog love
The Magic Mountain (Mann), 76
“Manifesto for Cyborgs” (Haraway), 18
Mann, Thomas, xxi, 62, 63–69, 115, 148, 168n26; and Nietzsche, 67, 68, 69, 76, 77–79; and writing, 79–80. See also Man and Dog; “Tobias Mindernickel”
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Barad), 140
Melancholia’s Dog (Kuzniar), 63
Metamorphosis (Kafka), 15, 16
“The Mirror Stage” (Lacan), 38
morality, 78, 138; masculine vs. feminine, 92–93; vs. moralism, 148. See also ethics
nature, 55, 104, 147, 148, 166n51; and abjection, 139, 140–45; vs. civilization, 89, 112; vs. culture, xxiv, 18, 30, 33, 59, 139, 149; vs. domestication, 56, 57; and moral purity, 138; vs. philosophy, 64–65; in Viola video, 37, 38, 39, 44; women as, 95, 139
Nietzsche, Friedrich, xxi, xxiv, 63, 142, 147, 163n17, 165n44, 166n51; on animals, 26, 127; on domestication, 54, 56; on empathy, 163n21; and Mann, 67, 68, 69, 76, 77–79
The Open: Man and Animal (Agamben), 14
otherness, 19, 43, 60, 64, 72, 86; animal, xxi, 5, 16, 27, 32; and ethics, 17, 21; vs. saming, 82
The Passions (video; Viola), 35
pet keeping, xx–xxi, 46, 164n31; and anthropocentrism, 83, 90; and boundaries, 167n15; Deleuze on, 53–54, 114; and identity, 53–54; in literature, 60–62; vs. meat industry, 131; terms for, 102, 103, 137; and violence, 71. See also Flush; Man and Dog; “Tobias Mindernickel”
politics, xix, 72, 82, 168n26, 168n31; and death, xxiii, 106, 107, 112; and human vs. animal, 132–33
postcolonial theory, 4–5, 7
posthumanism, xxiii; and animal studies, 14, 19, 146, 147; and ethics, 17–18, 21, 22, 23; and humanism, 149–50; humanist, xx, 152n12
The Postmodern Animal (Baker), 12, 107
postmodernism, 13, 16, 18, 61; and boundaries, 106; on consciousness, 158n21; and death, xxii, 106, 115; vs. humanism, 24; vs. modernism, xvii–xviii, xix; and naturecultures, 149
Precarious Life (Butler), 112
rationality: animal, 4–5, 8, 21, 30–31; and anthropomorphism, 45; and ethics, 68, 116; and gender, 82, 139; human, xv–xvi, 4, 27, 57, 118; limits of, 34, 120
“Reflections of an Unpolitical Man” (Mann), 72
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 32, 38, 91, 92; on death, 101–2; on domestication, 56, 57; and Grandin, 172n8; on nature vs. philosophy, 64–65; on suffering, 68, 69
Russell, Catherine, 37, 41, 42
Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue, 8, 9
Second Discourse (Rousseau), 101–2
September 11, 2001 attacks, 112
sexuality, xxi, 54, 61, 66; and aggression, 90; and animality, 105, 124; vs. civilization, 91, 93, 94; and dog love, 85–86, 87. See also homosexuality
shame, xxii, xxiii–xxiv, 44, 78, 94, 176n31; and animality, 20, 63; and the body, 139, 140, 142; and civilization, 96; Darwin on, 142, 177n37; and nature, 140–45; and smell, 94, 95; of suffering, 135
subjectivity, 7, 13, 25; animal, xx, xxi, 4, 29, 31, 36, 44; and animal studies, 118; and anthropomorphism, 19; and domestication, 58; and gender, 82, 157n15; limits of human, 29; and screening, 148; and self, 40–41; in Viola video, 36, 37, 38
Sublime Historical Experience (Ankersmit), 14
suffering, 26, 116, 126, 143, 162n8; in Disgrace, 135, 136; and feminist care tradition, 141; human vs. animal, 113; in “Tobias Mindernickel,” 65, 66–69
The Tears of Eros (Bataille), 105
Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism (Daston and Mitman), 19
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Deleuze and Guattari), 14–15, 53
Three Guineas (Woolf), 81, 82, 94
To the Lighthouse (Woolf), 84
Tolstoy, Leo, xxii, 115, 170n22. See also “Strider: The Story of a Horse”
training, animal: and ethics of domestication, 58–60; and language, 9–11, 19, 59
trauma studies, 7, 19; and animal studies, 6, 17; and the sublime, 13–14
violence, 21, 22, 71, 73, 78; and animal studies, 6; and animality, 148–49; against animals, xiii, 106–7; and becoming animal, 108; and love, xviii, xxi–xxii, 70, 165n43; and mourning, 112, 113, 114; of science, 41; in Viola video, 37, 41–42
“What Does Becoming-Animal Look Like?” (Baker), 107
“What Is Called Thinking?” (Heidegger), xv–xvi
“What Is Enlightenment” (Foucault), 12–13
“What Is It Like to Be a Bat” (Nagel), xx, 28–29
When Species Meet (Haraway), 140
“Why Look at Animals” (Berger), xx–xxi, 54
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 7, 8, 9
Wolfe, Cary, xxii, 7, 9, 147, 152n12, 164n31, 172n52; on ethics, 21, 22, 23; and Grandin, 173n9, 173n23
women, xviii, xxiv, 23, 26, 71, 82, 94; abjection of, 75, 124; abuse of, 138; aging, 16; vs. civilization, 88, 90, 93; and culture, 84; intelligence of, 9, 82; vs. men, 157n10; morality of, 92–93; and mourning, 110–12; as nature, 95, 139. See also femininity; feminism; gender
women’s studies, 23; and animal studies, 3–4, 7, 25
world: animal vs. human, 11, 21, 27, 29–34, 147; of dogs, 31, 84; idea of, xxiii, 136; and language, 8