Marcy Norton‘s “The Chicken or the Iegue: Human-Animal relationships and the Columbian Exchange” (The American Historical Review 120.1 (2015): 28-60) begins with an anecdote about…
Some form of the word “reason” appears more than 100 times in The Consolation of Philosophy.[1]Thank you to The University of Oslo’s Bibliotheca Polyglota website, whose…
The Consolation of Philosophy culminates by proving that God’s omniscience does not prevent humans from exercising “free will.”[1]Trans. P. G. Walsh for Oxford World’s Classics,…
I’ve written about William Dunbar’s “My ladye with the mekle lippis” twice before, first, for a session at the Medieval Academy Conference in Philadelphia on…
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…
Edinburgh architecture and profits from slavery; Walter Benjamin and ‘documents of barbarism’; definitions of race from Geraldine Heng and Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Max Weber (W-E-B-E-R,…
