... The introduction argues for an interspecies relational ethic premised on indifference to the difference of others—that is, premised on mutual regard rather than curiosity, love, or animus. The introduction begins with a review of the role curiosity plays in interspecies scholarship and moves...

... The chapter argues that indifference can be the basis for an interspecies ethics. It focuses on touch and tactility to demonstrate that touch is a kind of exposure to the world that generates receptivity. Being indifferent to touch, rather than invested in either purity or danger, the humans...

... where independent prescriptions from different spheres preclude any universal, all-inclusive norm for unalienated labor. Defining neutrality as indifference to difference , the chapter is a philosophical meditation on the choreography of biological, social, and psychic life, and its global unraveling...

... indifference queerness curiosity opacity interspecies ...

... touch purity indifference exposure ahimsa ...