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...Mikhail Epstein Grusin Richard , ed., The Nonhuman Turn . ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 ), 255 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...-animals who became differentiated from other nonhuman species through the acquisition of advanced cognitive capacities. Amerindian cultures, by contrast, regard animals as ex-humans who became differentiated from both modern humans and other animal species via a series of physical adaptations. Underneath...

... questions an ambiguity in their specifications of what morality and moralism are—an unexplained tendency on their part to occlude distinctively nonhuman animal life in favor of the inanimate when advocating a concern for the nonhuman, and what appears to be a misreading of Michel Serres. Duke University...

... hedeemstobeaculturaluniversal. and mythology Amerindian of theme central the be to shown has Lévi-Strauss Claude nonhuman—that and human “nature”—of and separation“culture” of cisely what the mythology sets out to tell. This end is, of course, the well-known same immanent, presubjective and preobjective milieu, the end...

... practices, and that means starting with the active tangle of humans and nonhumans in the process of working something out—something that could only later be classified as either social or natural. They then treat these situated activities as examples of world-making , by which I mean simply...

... or intention, purpose, desire, will, emotion, “independentbe of . . .to cognition, here claimed are emotions, human in rooted obviously offeelings experience the human non term the including rhetoric, own But nonhuman.” his the from human the separate that dualisms or rhetorical...

... of thing than STS scholarship ever could be. Several contributors to the installments of this symposium refer to Rorty's ideas about humans and nonhumans, as if sensing that something is at stake between Rorty and Latour; and I concur. Rorty is a thoroughgoing nominalist and Latour is an empiricist...

...Émilie Hache; Bruno Latour The field of “science studies” has often been suspected of dubious moral grounds because of its intensive concern with nonhumans; the accusation is made by those who use a roughly Kantian definition of what it is to occupy the moral high ground. By evaluating four...

....” 47. Stengers, “Deleuze and Guattari's Last Enigmatic Message,” 994 . 48. Half a century after Christopher D. Stone's Should Trees Have Standing? (1972) raised issues about the legal position of nonhumans, questions about the rights of rivers, mountains, and other more-than-human agents...

... and contact can remind us, for example, of all that can interfere with or defeat intended goals, particularly in a lifeworld of multisited human and nonhuman agency. Overall, this response to Viveiros de Castro takes an aesthetico-political approach to his article. It comments on the important work...

... and integrated culture and religiosity, an unbroken connection to premodern attitudes and practices, an intimate relationship with the earth and with nonhuman creatures, along with positive feelings toward their own traditions and a simple, honest, and direct way of living. All of these presumed characteristics...

.... They then argue for form-content contradiction/harmony between these purportedly opposing senses. In responding, Zamir argues that these operations can be construed as distinct kinds of sensitivity. Arguments that advocate bringing nonhuman animals into moral consideration can be abstract and general...

...Miguel Tamen Tamen's essay is one of a group of responses to Émilie Hache and Bruno Latour's article “Morality or Moralism?” which advocates our “sensitization” to nonhuman things. Tamen examines the picture of universal reciprocation that Hache and Latour propose, according to which, when I “bow...

... of science studies” (Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway), Gaskill finds that Rorty's persistent assumption of nature/culture and word/world dichotomies is politically dangerous and prevents his comprehending both distributed agency and the complexity of human entanglements with the nonhuman...

..., and emergent back-and-forth between a multiplicity of actors, variously human and nonhuman. The author's concern in this new essay is with apparently stable and dependable technologies, such as cars, computers, and power stations, which he conceptualizes here as “islands of stability” in the flux of becoming...

... to understand that it was not Pasteur alone who altered the representation of fermentation; the fermentation itself modified its manifestation. Hence there is historicity not only on the human side of scientific discovery—the story of Pasteur and his yeast —but also historicity on the nonhuman side—the story...

... arguments on topics including theory and method, nonhuman agency and politics, and technical mediation. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 actor-network theory anthropology Bruno Latour disciplinary translations literary studies Common Knowledge 26:2 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-8188844 ©...

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... at the expense of respecting human subjectivity. According to Rorty, “Enlightenment scientism” was “a survival of the religious need to have human projects underwritten by a nonhuman authority.” 46 Rorty cared primarily about humanity and, therefore, about community more than truth, poetry more than...

... of nonhuman of nonhuman terms in trends historical ­term...