(Okay, so I’ve been writing. And reading. And standing to the side, just over here, watching our blog get along fine. Good! Warning: what follows…
“There is no impersonal reason for regarding the interests of human beings as more important than those of animals. We can destroy animals more easily…
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…
Continuing apologies for the long absence. Part of this I can blame on a (deserved?) week of indolence, and part on my slow march through…
Compulsively readable, suitable for the dinner table, this camp novel is set largely in the dialog of two children, a young boy and his (presumably)…
I count this special issue of PhaenEx as a book because I think it’s the best anthology on animal theory I’ve yet read. Look here…
The various uses of GEWALT, which stands out because of Derrida’s commentary on Benjamin’s “Zur Kritik der Gewalt.” Most notably, it appears in the earliest…
An excellent anthology, marred, and this only a little, by an over-cautious essay on the ethics of animal euthanasia (or what Tom Regan called “well-intentioned…
In the most recent Nation Corey Robbin (BC-CUNY History Prof) reviews Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative, the collection Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in…
