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...Susan Ballard Abstract At the turn of the previous century Henri Bergson suggested that sympathy offered a way to understand interspecies relationships. Samuel Butler took Bergson’s ideas to an absurd extent by mixing them with readings of Charles Darwin and claiming a vital impulse for machines...

... .” In Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , 13 – 17 . New York : W. W. Norton and Company , 2008 . Quammen David . “ Sympathy for the Devil .” In Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , 21 – 26 . New York : W. W. Norton and Company , 2008 . Quammen David...

... ; Scheler, Nature of Sympathy . 4. Hardt and Negri, Empire , 413. 5. Boron, Empire and Imperialism , 99. 6. Agamben, Highest Poverty , xiii. On the Franciscanism of both Negri and Agamben, see Chiesa, “Giorgio Agamben’s Franciscan Ontology.” 7. Francis, Laudato si’ , §10...

... stances that trapping, banding, and observing made possible and necessary. In the festschrift just mentioned, for example, Nice paid tribute to her “guide, philosopher and friend” by quoting her own “Behavior of the Song Sparrow and other passerines” to observe that “gifted with an unusual sympathy...

... in the Habitus,” in Feminism After Bourdieu, ed. Lisa Adkins and Beverley Skeggs, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 224-248; 235. Heather Kerr informs me that Hume's analysis of sympathy confirms that the experience of another's passion may give rise to pity. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L.A. Selby...

... they are, and for that reason are worthy of the sympathies of children, much like dirt and litter and other misplaced things in which they delight. Burrs and thistles are in this sense travellers, if they are not meant to be where they are, they must have wandered or been ferried from somewhere else. Indeed, like all plants...

... of modernity has not yet given adequate account. Merton’s own insights about Joyce’s remaining religious “temper” are insightful in this regard. He explains: [Joyce] had practically no sympathy left for the Church he had abandoned: but in his intense loyalty to the vocation of artist for which he had...

... of environmentalists to embracing the ecomodernist cause. If you are not that naive, if you are not just engaged in a clever PR operation to brand a cause big enough to attract media attention and funding (and the sympathy of intellectuals like me), then it means you wish to mobilize on a much larger scale than...

... . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1998 . Ballard Susan . “ New Ecological Sympathies: Thinking about Contemporary Art in the Age of Extinction .” Environmental Humanities 9 , no. 2 ( 2017 ): 255 – 79 . Bastian Michelle . “ Whale Falls, Suspended Ground, and Extinctions...

... stresses empathy for other beings, and is central to theories of vegetarian ecofeminists Greta Gaard, Deanne Curtin, and Lori Gruen. Gaard argues that “... only by forestalling our sympathies for other animals are humans able to overlook the enormity of animal suffering.” 8 These ecofeminists advance...

... with these animals by foregrounding their destructive relationship to native wilderness and questioning the romantic imagination for the “mighty brumby” who in reality “looks a lot more like an inbred pony.” 81 Any connection that might lead to sympathy for or give value to, and so sustain, a feral animal’s...

... intense agony and empathy for the loss of one animal and a total lack of sympathy for “normal” forms of coyote prey like rabbits or rodents. Emotional entanglements such as these demonstrate arbitrariness. As many Nextdoor neighbors will point out without emotion, coyotes “play an important role...

... sympathetically to ticks. Yet, how they emerge in the material discussed here happens exactly through a kind of sympathy, namely, love. Additionally, the artist’s considerations draw a connection between these two contaminated, or possibly contaminating, bodies: the human trans body and the arthropod body...

... and agency mobilized him to sell his house and move his five children to a new neighborhood. While the stories explain these details, the portraits strip away the skills, expertise, and agency of these citizens. The subjects are cast as objects of sympathy or pity, but not as equal citizens for whom...

..., and it was impossible for one to be free while the other was chained. A degraded landscape meant that those living on it must suffer; likewise a people driven to work with the lash watched the landscape bleed in sympathy. Redemption could only come through cultivation. It would have been remarkable had Smith been...

... between them for defiant alliances. 35 For these three books, a defiance of hierarchy is bound up with sympathy across difference, with kinship amid difference; it is thus also bound up with a sense of unexpected abundance. These books take up authors who find subjectivity, vitality, and resilience...

..., the presence of running water, the likelihood of fruit and game. It is this ancestral sympathy for green spaces (as opposed to deserts, open ocean, and tundra) that informs the symbolic logic whereby the color green stands for the environment itself in political discourse, and maybe even for the association...

... sympathies so as to provide an all the more attractive site for the inscription of settler futurity. Crucially, we see the women grow up, their childish refusals ghosted along with their oceanic tethers to death. 9. Jue, Wild Blue Media , 10 . 10. Hau‘ofa, “Our Sea of Islands,” 31 . 11...

... in the area, as a teenager in the political ferment of the late 1960s and early 1970s, she had felt a strong sympathy for the Sámi cause—but being Norwegian herself, and thus “of” the colonial power, she had felt no right to “impose herself” in a struggle that was not hers. Instead, she had channeled her...

... of the main story line, as the adventure-game aspect of the project doesn’t necessarily enhance the viewer’s sympathy with the animals.” 24 However, I argue that both forms of data reassemblage, the anthropomorphized story line of Bear 71 and the interactive grid populated by other forms of life, actively...