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Book SynopsisThis 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 ContentsIntroduction Seeing Animals - Sarah Bezan & James Tink Part One: New Orientations in Derrida’s Philosophy The Wolves of the World: Derrida on the Political Symbolism of the Beast and the Sovereign - Gavin Rae The Loaded Cat - David Brooks Part Two: Posthumous Encounters “The Most Famous Dog in History”: Mourning the Animot in Abadzis’ Laika - José Alaniz The Anterior Animal: Derrida, Deep Time, and Immersive Vision of Paleoartist Julius Csotonyi - Sarah Bezan “The Dignity of Mankind”: Edward Tyson’s Anatomy of a Pygmie and the Ape-Man Boundary - Nicole Mennell Part Three: Beyond Ocularcentrism Chris Marker’s Alter Egos: The Camera and the Cat - Bonnie Gill Scenting Wild: Olfactory Panic and Jack London’s Ocular Dogs - David Huebert 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 Four: New Arrivals Be/Holding Each Other: Transgenic Invisibilities, Anomaly, and Subjectivity in the GFP Bunny Project - Malin Palani The Surreal Gaze of the Animal Other: Uncanny Encounters in Magritte and Buñel - Kirsten Strom Becoming Animal and the Two Meanings of Animality: A Derridean Reading of Black Swan - Rodolfo Piskorski Approaching Apocalypse: The Typology of Animals in Nicola Barker’s In the Approaches - James Tink
