Description
Book SynopsisArgues that humanity can be seen as a case of mistaken identity.
Trade Review"This is a powerful account of human exceptionalism, narrated with the most enchanting of attentiveness to the texts being read. Dominic Pettman writes with such subtlety, wit, and imagination that every page of this book is a pleasure to think with." —Rey Chow, Duke University
"Reading this book is a seductively creaturely experience. Pettman combines impressive theoretical sophistication and pitch-perfect pop-cultural readings with a lightness of touch that pulls us in many unexpected directions and elicits many surprising feelings. A major contribution that maps a way past the all-too-human errors of the posthuman." —Hugh Raffles, author of Insectopedia
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Human Element
1. Bear Life: Tracing an Opening in
Grizzly Man 2. Zooicide: Animal Love and Human Justice
3. After the Beep: Answering Machines and Creaturely Life
4. The War on Terra: From Political Economy to Libidinal Ecology
Conclusion: Human Remains
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography/Videography
Index
