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Before the Law: Humans and other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame
by Cary WolfeAnimal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law, Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
What Is Posthumanism?
by Cary WolfeWhat does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities--posthumani... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens’s Birds
by Cary WolfeThe poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens’s evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us about the relationship between human and nonhuman?... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Manifestly Haraway
Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto" is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges--of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location--are incr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Philosophy and Animal Life
Philosophy and Animal Life offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself. Cora Diamond begins with "The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy," in which she accuses analytical philosophy of evading, or deflecting, th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and the Problem of Contingency (Just Ideas)
by Étienne Balibar • Rosi Braidotti • Drucilla Cornell • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht • Michael Naas • Cary Wolfe • Slavoj ŽižekMore than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terror... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology)
by Matthias Fritsch • Philippe Lynes • David Wood • Karen Barad • Timothy Clark • Claire Colebrook • Vicki Kirby • John Llewelyn • Michael Marder • Dawne McCance • Michael Naas • Kelly Oliver • Michael Peterson • Ted Toadvine • Cary WolfeEco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy launches a new mode of philosophical and ethical reflection with respect to the challenges posed by the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosophe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food
by Kari Weil • Cary Wolfe • Samantha King • Neel Ahuja • Billy-Ray Belcourt • R. Scott Carey • Isabel Macquarrie • Victoria Niva Millious • Elaine M. Power • Matthew R. Calarco • Lauren Corman • Naisargi N. Dave • Maneesha Deckha • María Elena García • Sharon P. Holland • H. Peter Steeves • Kelly Struthers Montford • Kim TallBear • Sunaura Taylor • Harlan WeaverLiterature on the ethics and politics of food and that on human–animal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars about the connections between their academic work... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Molt in Neotropical Birds: Life History and Aging Criteria (Studies in Avian Biology)
Molt is an important avian life history event in which feathers are shed and replaced. The timing, duration, seasonality, extent and pattern of molt follows certain strategies and this book reviews and describes these strategies for nearly 190 species based on information gathered from a 30-year stu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Successful Scriptwriting: How to write and pitch winning scripts for movies, sitcoms, soaps, serials and v ariety shows
by Jurgen Wolff • Kerry CoxSUCCESSFUL SCRIPTWRITINGLet's start with "The End." The credits roll - we see "Screenplay by ..." and there's your name. The show's a hit! It's Emmy/Oscar night, and you're seated up front. The nominations are revealed; your name is called. Your acceptance speech is memorable, an inspiration to the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1988 -
Economic History of Warfare and State Formation
This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i. e. , how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Breath in Action: The Art of Breath in Vocal and Holistic Practice
by Lisa Wilson • David Carey • Rocco Dal Vera • Michael Morgan • Kristin Linklater • Cicely Berry • Floyd Kennedy • Jessica Wolf • Debbie Green • Tara Mcallister-Viel • Mel Churcher • April Pierrot • Yolanda Heman-Ackah • Marj Mcdaid • Gillyanne Kayes • Judy Lee Vivier • Jane Boston • Katya Bloom • Joanna Weir Ouston • Rena Cook • Stephanie Martin • Rebecca Cuthbertson • Roger SmartBreath in Action looks at the significance of breath to human life - not just the simple fact that if we stop breathing, we die, but also the more subtle ways in which our breath interacts with our voice and our being. Written by experts in vocal and holistic practice, the book is divided into four ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
A Research Strategy to Examine the Taxonomy of the Red Wolf
by Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources • Division on Earth and Life Studies • Board on Life Sciences • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine • Committee on Assistance to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Taxonomic Studies of the Red Wolf: A Review of Applications to Carry Out Research and Development of a Research StrategyA Research Strategy to Examine the Taxonomy of the Red Wolf provides independent guidance about taxonomic research on the red wolf, Canis rufus. Building from the 2019 report Evaluating the Taxonomic Status of the Mexican Gray Wolf and the Red Wolf, this report reviews and ranks research application... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches (Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
by Katherine Borland • Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera • Solimar Otero • Rachel V. González-Martin • Juan Eduardo Wolf • Miriam Melton-Villanueva • Sheila Bock • Rhonda R. Dass • Cheikh Tidiane Lo • Itzel Guadalupe Garcia • Mabel Cuesta • Gloria M. Colom Braña • Martin A. Tsang • Alexander Fernandez • Xóchitl Chávez • Cory W. Thorne • Phyllis M. May-MachundaThe study of folklore has historically focused on the daily life and culture of regular people, such as artisans, storytellers, and craftspeople. But what can folklore reveal about strategies of belonging, survival, and reinvention in moments of crisis? The experience of living in hostile conditions... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021