What Animals Teach Us About Politics

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published by Duke University Press.

List of contents

What Animals Teach Us about Politics 1

Supplements

1. To Write Like a Rat Flicks Its Tail 55

2. The Zoo-ology of Play 65

3. Six Theses on the Animal to Be Avoided 91

Notes 99

References 119

Index 125

About the author

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published by Duke University Press.

Summary

In this concise book, the noted theorist Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." Treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics, which he uses as the basis of an expanded notion of the political.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Massumi
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2014
• EAN: 9780822357728
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5772-8
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas