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Book SynopsisIn this concise book, the noted theorist Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." Treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics, which he uses as the basis of an expanded notion of the political.
Trade Review“For those ready and willing to navigate the complexity of
What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Massumi is a brilliant thinker who has produced another incisive critique that is likely to elicit interesting scholarship and responses, both from his immediate interlocutors and anyone else looking for a way out of humanity.” -- Liam Mayes * Montreal Review of Books *
"[C]omplex, dazzling, and sometimes elusive central essay bolstered by various addenda (propositions, supplements, and lavishlyintricate endnotes) — presents an intensely ratiocinative meditation on how animals play and what that might mean for people." -- Randy Malamud * Common Knowledge *
"[A]n active book aimed at establishing a new understanding of politics. It is thus useful for anyone who wants to approach politics from a new perspective, one that does not limit the political to that which is already given, but one that opens politics up to creative potentialities and affectivity." -- Colleen Harmer * Limina *
"At a moment when animality, and the animality of the human, has become one of the major themes of contemporary theory, Massumi’s book makes a major intervention." -- Nathan Snaza * Symploke *
Table of ContentsWhat Animals Teach Us about Politics 1 Supplements 1. To Write Like a Rat Flicks Its Tail 55 2. The Zoo-ology of Play 65 3. Six Theses on the Animal to Be Avoided 91 Notes 99 References 119 Index 125
