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Zusatztext This is a fascinating collection of thoughtfully subversive essays, which range over art and philosophy, science and literature, evolution and ethics, the sacred and the divine. Bringing into creative contact the pressing questions of, on the one hand, animals and animality and, on the other, technology and transhumanism, they urge the reader to move beyond humanist hang-ups, beyond anthroponormative assumptions, indeed, beyond the human. Informationen zum Autor ClaireMolloy is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics, History, Media & Communication at Liverpool Hope University, UK and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.She has published on anthropomorphism, representations of animals invideogames and literature and dangerousdogs, media and risk. She is the author of Memento (EUP 2010) and Popular Media and Animal Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and co-editor of American Independent Cinema: Indie, Indiewood and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Steven Shakespeare is Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope University and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His publications include The Inclusive God (co authored with Hugh Rayment-Pickard, SCM, 2006), Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Introduction (SPCK, 2007) and Derrida and Theology (T and T Clark, 2009). Klappentext Explores the implications of our animal origins and posthuman futures for our understanding of our humanity and our relations with other species. Vorwort Explores the implications of our animal origins and posthuman futures for our understanding of our humanity and our relations with other species. Zusammenfassung Explores the implications of our animal origins and posthuman futures for our understanding of our humanity and our relations with other species. This title investigates what it means to call ourselves human beings in relation to both our distant past and our possible futures as a species. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures \ Contributors \ Preface Sean Cubitt \ Acknowledgements \ Introduction Steven Shakespeare, Claire Molloy and Charlie Blake \ Part I: Animality: Boundaries and Definitions \ 1. Incidents in the Animal Revolution Ron Broglio \ 2.Being a Known Animal Claire Molloy \ 3. Beyond the Pain Principle Giovanni Aloi \ Part II: Representing Animality \ 4. What We Can Do: Art Methodologies and Parities in Meeting Bryndis Snæbjornsdóttir and Mark Wilson \ 5. Horse-Crazy Girls: Alternative Embodiments and Socialities Natalie Corinne Hansen \ 6. Writing Relations: the Lobster, the Orchid, the Primrose, You, Me, Chaos and Literature Lucile Desblache \ Part III: Thinking Beyond the Divide \ 7. Affective Animal: Bataille, Lascaux and the Mediatization of the Sacred Felicity Colman \ 8. Levinas, Bataille and the Theology of Animal Life Donald L. Turner \ 9. Degrees of ‘Freedom': Humans as Primates in Dialogue with Hans urs von Balthasar Celia Deane-Drummond \ Part IV: Animal- Human- Machine- God \ 10. Inhuman Geometries: Aurochs and Angels and The Refuge of Art Charlie Blake \ 11. Articulating the Inhuman: God, Animal, Machine Steven Shakespeare \ 12. Transforming the Human Body Gareth Jones and Maja Whitaker \ Index...
