{"id":60,"date":"2009-04-06T22:02:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T22:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zurkow.wordpress.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2009-04-10T19:10:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T23:10:43","slug":"reading-animal-erica-fudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/04\/06\/reading-animal-erica-fudge\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading: Animal, Erica Fudge"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Corey Wolfe, Michael Pollan, Erica Fudge, read like cornball-edly obvious fictional names, but their books are great)<\/em><\/p>\n

At ITP<\/a> I’m teaching a class called “Animals, People and Those in Between.<\/a>”
\nThis book, in addition to The Animals Reader<\/a>, was super-useful, covering a lot of ground both on the history of people’s attitudes towards animals (from Aristotle, Descartes and Bentham to Peter Singer, and Tom Regan,\u00a0 Carol Adams, Yi-Fu Tuan et al), but also a survey on more radical and critical takes on the subject.<\/p>\n

Animal<\/a> is a clear and critical\u00a0 guide to ‘reading’ animals, and asking questions of everyone trafficking in animals,\u00a0 from the view points of science, fashion, advertising and philosophy. Fudge gives a great summary of Peter Singer’s work in chapter 2, “Real and Symbolic: Questions of Difference” as well as magic acts revealed in her treatment of Ham the NASA chimp, the His Master’s Voice dog, and PETA + fake fur.<\/p>\n

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Animal by Erica Fudge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…You can get the book on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

This book’s part of the Focus on Contemporary Issues series by Reaktion Books<\/a>, who has a great series called Animal<\/a>.\u00a0 The series’ titles include Ant, Bear, Cockroach, Cat, Crow, Eel, Elephant.<\/em>.. They’re written by a spectrum of eminent nature-culture writers. I loved Fly, which covered the natural and cultural histories of, yeah, flies. Author Stephen Connor describes the fly as one who \u201ctakes its pleasure promiscuously, restlessly, unswervably, unashamedly…. Each fly is king of his own country. He knows no laws or conventions\u2026He has no work to do\u2014no tyrannical instinct to obey\u2026 what freedom is like his?\u201d<\/p>\n

This is my kind of reasoned, academic, delicious anthropomorphism.<\/p>\n

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Return of the Fly collectible<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Corey Wolfe, Michael Pollan, Erica Fudge, read like cornball-edly obvious fictional names, but their books are great) At ITP I’m teaching a class called “Animals, People and Those in Between.” This book, in addition to The Animals Reader, was super-useful, covering a lot of ground both on the history of people’s attitudes towards animals (from … <\/p>\n

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