A great and boggy disappointment. Do we need yet another book cataloging the failures of Lacan and Heidegger on animals? After Derrida, after Calarco, after…
A little more than a month ago, I put up a little post about the Wolf Child of Hesse. I’m talking about this material twice…
Ryan Judkins reminds me that: during the curee, the dogs were usually fed on the innards of the deer, including the stomach, lungs (if they…
by KARL STEEL To ensure the blog stays as eclectic as possible, I’m here to talk, again, about deer carcasses, so you may want to…
Recall that towards the end of Marie’s lai, Mr. B’s wife shows up at court, only to be attacked by her lupine husband: Oiez cum…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LwE38qbylM?fs=1 You’ll remember how “Bisclavret” begins: Quant de lais faire m’entremet ne voil ubliër Bisclavret. Bisclavret a nun en Bretan, Garwalf l’apelant li Norman. Jadis le…
Fascinating, impassioned, and deeply learned. Finkelstein counters the notion that imputing judicial responsibility to nonhumans and inanimate objects represents pre-Christian primitivism by demonstrating that not…
good on the logic of burial locations. not my cup of tea, though a great source for surprising medieval death facts (Richard Boyle, the suicide…
If you, probable medievalist, are not at this very moment publishing amazing books (seriously! AVMEO!) and joining the manic symposium of Kalamazoo, and–so long as I’m…
This Thursday I’m flying from Paris to State College, PA, for Robot Weekend: Being Human Gizmos,” where I’ll do my wormy song-and-dance. The conference starts with Anthony Clarvoe’s…
