I’m told that I’ve been away for too long. What brought me back, today, and I hope again and again, is a dispensation sealed with…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
The better essays are Teresa Mangum’s “Dog Years, Humans Fears,” which opened me up to the proliferation of 19th-c. English works told from a dogs’-eye…
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…
