Squirrel Facts (Elvis the Pelvis)
Research Blog | April 12, 2009
So much for the natives feeling less antipathy towards their compatriots. Elvis, an injured red squirrel, attacked a pensioner who came to his aid at the weekend, leaving the man needing hospital treatment. Ernie Gordon, 75, a squirrel fanatic who wrote a children’s book The Adventures of Rusty Red Coat, was called out last Friday…
Reading: Animal, Erica Fudge
Research Blog | April 6, 2009
(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…
Reading: Zoontologies, Carey Wolfe, ed.
Research Blog | April 6, 2009
Zoontologies, the Question of the Animal is a collection of essays about “those nonhuman beings called animals (who) pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when the Other can no longer safely be assumed to be…