Beschreibung:
Seeing Animals after Derrida marks a shift in studies of visuality in animal philosophy. Presenting an emergent set of questions for animal studies scholars, this volume intervenes in recent debates of the nonhuman turn that have been incited in the wake of a post-deconstructionist era.
This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of - the visual apparatus, Seeing Animals after Derrida investigates how the recent turn in animal studies toward new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology prompts a renewed engagement with Derrida's animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derrida's treatment of animality for the current epoch, the contributors to this book each present a case for new philosophical approaches and aesthetic paradigms that challenge the ocularcentrism of Western culture.
Introduction Seeing Animals - Sarah Bezan & James Tink
Part One: New Orientations in Derrida’s Philosophy
The Wolves of the World: Derrida on the Political Symbolism of the Beast and the Sovereign - Gavin Rae
The Loaded Cat - David Brooks
Part Two: Posthumous Encounters
“The Most Famous Dog in History”: Mourning the Animot in Abadzis’ Laika - José Alaniz
The Anterior Animal: Derrida, Deep Time, and Immersive Vision of Paleoartist Julius Csotonyi - Sarah Bezan
“The Dignity of Mankind”: Edward Tyson’s Anatomy of a Pygmie and the Ape-Man Boundary - Nicole Mennell
Part Three: Beyond Ocularcentrism
Chris Marker’s Alter Egos: The Camera and the Cat - Bonnie Gill
Scenting Wild: Olfactory Panic and Jack London’s Ocular Dogs - David Huebert
Do Androids Dream of Derrida’s Cat? The Unregulated Emotion of Animals in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Megan E. Cannella
Part Four: New Arrivals
Be/Holding Each Other: Transgenic Invisibilities, Anomaly, and Subjectivity in the GFP Bunny Project - Malin Palani
The Surreal Gaze of the Animal Other: Uncanny Encounters in Magritte and Buñel - Kirsten Strom
Becoming Animal and the Two Meanings of Animality: A Derridean Reading of Black Swan - Rodolfo Piskorski
Approaching Apocalypse: The Typology of Animals in Nicola Barker’s In the Approaches - James Tink