In much of his late work, Jacques Derrida characterized the question of the animal as “not one question among others” but the question that “represents…
When in medieval intellectual befunkitude, I try to open myself to the unknown in the hopes that I’ll be surprised. German works might be the…
The local section of the NY Times reports that the current pope loves cats: Though Benedict is the first pope to be written about by…
I met with an independent study student today about Sir Gowther. Without much luck, we tried to track Gowther’s developing relations with dogs after the…
Speaking of Science Fiction writers, last week, Matthew Chrulew (who, so far as I can determine, is a doctoral student at Monash University) did me…
After Kzoo, I wrote a post reevaluating my thoughts on animals. A revised version of the reevaluation became my diss’s conclusion–epilogue, rather, as that sounds…
Readers of this blog and attendees at the medieval to modern posthumanisms session at Kzoo know my position on the boundary between humans and animals.…
A while back, I discussed a case of necrobestiality. The hope for exoneration of a fellow caught in flagrante delicto with a deer’s carcass hinged…
A few months back, I heard Peter Travis give a talk, “Aesop’s Animots,” on a fable in which Aesop feeds a group of philosophers ox…