Seeing Animals after Derrida

✍ Scribed by Sarah Bezan (editor), James Tink (editor)

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of - the visual apparatus, Seeing Animals after Derrida investigates how the recent turn in animal studies toward new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology prompts a renewed engagement with Derrida's animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derrida's treatment of animality for the current epoch, the contributors to this book each present a case for new philosophical approaches and aesthetic paradigms that challenge the ocularcentrism of Western culture.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Seeing Animals after Derrida • Sarah Bezan and James Tink
Part I: NEW ORIENTATIONS IN DERRIDA’S PHILOSOPHY
1 The Wolves of the World: Derrida on the Political Symbolism of the Beast and the Sovereign • Gavin Rae
2 The Loaded Cat • David Brooks
Part II: POSTHUMOUS ENCOUNTERS
3 “The Most Famous Dog in History”: Mourning the Animot in Abadzis’ Laika • José Alaniz
4 The Anterior Animal: Derrida, Deep Time, and the Immersive Vision of Paleoartist Julius Csotonyi • Sarah Bezan
5 “The Dignity of Mankind”: Edward Tyson’s Anatomy of a Pygmie and the Ape-Man Boundary • Nicole Mennell
Part III: BEYOND ORACULARCENTRISM
6 Chris Marker’s Alter Egos: The Camera and the Cat • Bonnie Gill
7 Scenting Wild: Olfactory Panic and Jack London’s Ocular Dogs • David Huebert
8 Do Androids Dream of Derrida’s Cat? The Unregulated Emotion of Animals in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? • Megan E. Cannella
Part IV: NEW ARRIVALS
9 Be/Holding Each Other: Transgenic Invisibilities, Anomaly, and Subjectivity in the GFP Bunny Project • Malin Palani
10 The Surreal Gaze of the Animal Other: Uncanny Encounters in Magritte and Buñuel • Kirsten Strom
11 Becoming-Animal and the Two Meanings of Animality: A Derridean Reading of Black Swan • Rodolfo Piskorski
12 Approaching Apocalypse: The Typology of Animals in Nicola Barker’s In the Approaches • James Tink
Index
About the Contributors