...W. W. Keen, M.D. Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 The Value of Medical Research to Mankind and to Animals Especially as Illustrated by the Achievements of Louis Pasteur* W. W. Keen, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. It is a great...

...W. W. Keen, M.D. Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 The Value of Medical Research to Mankind and to Animals Especially as Illustrated by the Achievements of Louis Pasteur (Concluded) W. W. Keen, MiD. Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Turning...

... of practicality, a relational ontology is proposed as an alternative. The essay centers on Agamben's discussion of the animal and the Jew in the context of his books The Open and Homo Sacer . © 2007 Duke University Press 2007 Andrew Benjamin Particularity and Exceptions: On Jews and Animals...

...Alastair Hunt Scholars of biopolitics widely assume that the life addressed by power = human life, with a reassuring unconsciousness of having left anything at all out of the equation. Recent research contends that animals are at least as much as human beings subject to varied techniques...

...Adrian Mackenzie This essay analyzes a genre of self-improvement literature based on scientific models of animal behavior and neurophysiology. Popular science books such as Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking , by Malcolm Gladwell, or Mind Wide Open: Why You Are What You Think , by Steven...

...Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller; Noenoe K. Silva The scientific, philosophical, and political efforts to police the distinction between human and animal—amalgamated processes that Giorgio Agamben has called “the anthropological machine”—have been significant components of neocolonial governance in Hawai`i...

...Katrina Schlunke When brought together in the animated documentary, animation with its tradition of comic storytelling and gothic graphic fiction and the documentary film with its tradition of “realism” create new possibilities for understanding the relationship between spectatorship and memory...

...Julian Huxley Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 THE CONTROL OF ANIMAL PESTS IN WARTIME JULIAN HUXLEY AN S STRUGGLE for existence falls under three heads: his struggle with the forces of the inorganic environment, his struggle with other species of organisms, and his struggle...

...James A. Kehl White House or Animal House? James A. Kehl Animals cannot vote, but they have consistently demonstrated an abil­ ity to influence those who do. From time to time these nonhuman non­ voters have cast jagged political shadows that have been known to creep into the ballot box. Ever...

...Brady Brower During France's Third Republic, a wide-ranging discourse about animal societies offered a particularly powerful way to redefine the ideological underpinnings of human association in the republican national state. Drawing on precedents in comparative anatomy and physiology, Alfred...

...Dinesh Wadiwel Emerging perspectives on the labor of animals highlight the role of non-humans in generating value. However, few of these accounts explore the role of resistance in shaping the character of animal labor and the structure of this activity within value chains. In this essay, I explore...

... and the resulting liberation of the human-animal relation into the figure of nonknowledge. For Heidegger, the questioning pivots on the issue of the human in relation to Da-sein , “being-there,” taken as the site of the event ( das Ereignis ). This difference becomes decisive because Agamben's critique remains...

... viewing. Unexpectedly, the film's exploration of zoophilia illuminates an embodied experience of reading that poets and novelists likewise figure in relation to animals; displacements of perspective and voice that literary texts explore in terms of literary meaning as it shades into animal movement...

...C. J. C. Pickstock The impulse to worship precedes philosophical reflection about God. It involves gratitude, admiration, and petition. However, it can also be argued that worship concludes and completes human abstract reflections. First, human beings are called to rise above their animal nature...

... and the most important theoretical issues that have animated (and continue to animate) the feminist discussions and assemblies. These theoretical issues also informed the preliminary composition of the “Feminist plan against male violence against women and gender violence.” The essay thus focuses on questions...

... to manifestations of unfounded racist fears. Many factors come into play in understanding this phenomenon, including the practices that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the effects of globalization on the meat industry, the changing nature of the relationship between humans and animals in ranching...

... in secular reason, however, has eroded on several fronts. Concurrent with these developments has been an explosion of global Christianity, particularly Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity, animated by a deep sense of the enchantment of the world, as evidenced by “signs and wonders” that contest...

... in Coraline as the Beldam, a wicked witch who lives outside yet supports the materialist and gender-normative fantasies of Coraline 's world. Evoking this instability through stop-motion animation and digital 3-D cinematography, Coraline invites the spectator to meditate on the psychic dynamics...

...Richard Pithouse This essay begins by noting the commitment to the universal that animated Frantz Fanon’s praxis. It then suggests that in a moment of renewal in both radical thought and practice there could be real value in returning to this commitment. However, the essay warns that in the past...

... forces animate black literary and critical texts that are positioned, by will or by force, outside or against the contemporary black canon? I address these questions through analyses of two divergent narratives of the civil rights era loss of black leadership. I contend that this loss—marked most...