Among the now famous feline musings of the first chapter of Derrida’s The Animal that therefore I am is this one, about the cat’s name:…
Fables are short, self-consciously fictitious narratives generally furnished with a moral interpretation, either before the fable (a promythium) or after it (an epimythium). They often travel in…
My first post for my “Reason, Freedom, and Animality” seminar explored the Stoic paradox that “all fools are slaves, and all wise men are free”…
Everything we can think of wants to be free. Boundaries yearn to blur; rigor aches to relax; structures shudder, hoping to be undermined. Flows will…
When I was still a grad student, I got my blogging start at In the Middle, in 2006, as a guest at what had started…
Amid the discussion in Goussin of Metz’s Image du Monde of various kinds of water — fresh, salty, black, poisonous, and so on — is…
Recommended Reading: THE ASSET ECONOMY (Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, and Martijn Konings), three Australian sociologists on the peculiar characteristics of modern economic inequality. Moving beyond…
The hunting and heraldry compilation known as The Boke of Saint Albans, printed in 1486, included in its 1496 edition the Treatyse of Fysshynge with…
Because of my work on medieval oysters, people have sent me, for years now, the same image of an angry medieval oyster. There it is,…
William Dunbar’s “My ladye with the mekle lippis,” is a parodic insult poem, possibly directed at Elen More or the other Black woman at the…
