...Thomas Laqueur; Alexander Nehamas Abstract This essay is an exchange between friends and scholars Thomas Laqueur and Alexander Nehamas. Laqueur offers a number of possible answers to the question “Why is a dog a man’s best friend?” as he explicates and analyzes a varied historical record...

... 2017 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2017 dogs possum hunting race hatred eradication One night late I let my dog, a spirited Am Staff, out to pee. A few minutes later, I heard a deep, throaty groan, that last gasp of an animal dying. I thought Stella had been hurt, ran out in my robe...

... Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2019 A review of Bénédicte Boisseron , Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 ); Lindgren Johnson , Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840–1930 ( New York : Routledge...

... . Aravamudan Srinivas . Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 1999 . Baderoon Gabeba . “ Animal Likenesses: Dogs and the Boundary of the Human in South Africa .” Journal of African Cultural Studies 29 , no. 3 ( 2017 ): 345 – 61...

... and Utopia (Black Dog Publishing, 1997), Occupational Hazard: Critical Writing on Recent British Art (Black Dog Publishing, London 1998), and Locus Solus: Technology, Identity and Site in Contemporary Art (Black Dog Publishing, London 1999). He also writes regularly...

... by Paul Federn and never used by Freud.) This will send us also earlier, before the very dis- covery of psychoanalysis. Freud’s Cynical Dogs I will exemplify this by analyzing one important literary model for Freud, that of Cervantes. Freud’s early fascination with Cervantes...

... a new discursive space in which something like an “ethics outside the human” might be theorized. In her recent book With Dogs at the Edge of Life, Colin Dayan takes up a similar experiment, attempting to conceive of an ethical alter- native to the world- as- such by thinking...

..., especially domesticated animals, are extremely susceptible to signs. A dog will react to the slightest changes in the behavior of his master; he will even distinguish the expres- sions of a human face or the modulations of a human voice. But it is a far cry from...

... he calls “mein lieber Dreihund,” but having lost the conjoined three-dog creature to death, he acquires new bodies, two American girls and a Japanese man, to fashion a human centipede through the methodology that rendered the fi lm infamous: a surgical procedure that joins...

... centered on an oppressive value system that declares some bodies normal, some bodies broken, and some bodies food. The Freak and the Patient In my life I have been compared to many animals. I have been told I walk like a monkey, eat like a dog, have hands like a lobster, and generally resemble...

... in the following pages range in tone from an ice cream cone shared on a hot day to passionate debates carried long into the night, moments we share with our friends. Thomas Laqueur asks, “Why is a dog a man’s best friend?,” charting answers through ancient history, art, and literature. Laqueur’s human best friend...

... of the Command of Abraham to Offer Isaac as a Sacrifice (the Akedah) . Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America , 1967 . Steel Karl . How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2011 . Stow Kenneth . Jewish Dogs...

...- es from the physical- psychological constitution of the subject of knowledge, along with the incidental circumstances of the encoun- ter with particular external things, run through all of the images or representations of these objects. The idea of “dog” in a particular...

... into contact with my stickiness. Time stagnates. I do nothing. The mercury swells upward. The animals are collapsing. A camel lay down in the middle of the street. A sleeping dog is panting. A dream stirs it. I’m living its dream. The nights are seeming shorter. And upon waking, hotter than...

... that not only don’t look particularly political but that don’t even look so- cial (as with Stockton’s examples of children and cars, or children and dogs, or, simply, metaphor itself).5 I would add, again, that 326 qui parle spring/summer 2010 vol.18, no.2 we must not make other others...

... me and who wants to erase my existence. sp: The name of Sirius is rather interesting in this respect— there’s a line from the name (and icon) of Sirius to the Dog Star and thus to Diogenes as a dog and a Cynic inheritance. The idea of an inverted Cynicism does seem...

..., and leads them to lend their bodies to baklas [fags]21 for the things which they believe would fill their lack: money and American goods. After his first sexual encounter Tom uses the money he earns to buy a Dyambo hat dog [jumbo hot dog]. As Tadiar reads this scene: "To bite into the hot...