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    ISBN: 9780754698630
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (253 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Considering Animals
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Considering animals
    DDC: 304.27
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    Keywords: Human-animal relationships ; Human-animal relationships Philosophy ; Human-animal relationships ; Human-animal relationships Philosophy ; Electronic books ; local ; Human-animal relationships ; Philosophy ; Human-animal relationships ; Electronic books ; Human-animal relationships ; Human-animal relationships ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Considering Animals draws on the expertise of scholars trained in the biological sciences, humanities, and social sciences to investigate the complex and contradictory relationships humans have with nonhuman animals. Taking their cue from the specific 'animal moments' that punctuate these interactions, the essays engage with contemporary issues and debates central to human-animal studies: the representation of animals, the practical and ethical issues inseparable from human interactions with other species, and, perhaps most challengingly, the compelling evidence that animals are themselves considering beings. Case studies focus on issues such as animal emotion and human 'sentimentality'; the representation of animals in contemporary art and in recent films such as March of the Penguins, Happy Feet, and Grizzly Man; animals' experiences in catastrophic events such as Hurricane Katrina and the SARS outbreak; and the danger of overvaluing the role humans play in the earth's ecosystems. From Marc Bekoff's moving preface through to the last essay, Considering Animals foregrounds the frequent, sometimes uncanny, exchanges with other species that disturb our self-contained existences and bring into focus our troubled relationships with them. Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, this collection demonstrates that, in the face of species extinction and environmental destruction, the roles and fates of animals are too important to be left to any one academic discipline.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1 Image -- 1 Contemporary Art and Animal Rights -- 2 Marching on Thin Ice: The Politics of Penguin Films -- 3 The Traumatic Effort to Understand: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man -- 4 Naming and the Unspeakable: Representations of Animal Deaths in Some Recent South African Print Media -- 5 Possum Magic, Possum Menace: Wildlife Control and the Demonisation of Cuteness -- Part 2 Ethics -- 6 Pleasure's Moral Worth -- 7 The Nature of the Experimental Animal: Evolution, Vivisection, and the Victorian Environment -- 8 "Room on the Ark?": the Symbolic Nature of U.S. Pet Evacuation Statutes for Nonhuman Animals -- 9 Making Animals Matter: Why the Art World Needs to Rethink the Representation of Animals -- Part 3 Agency -- 10 The Speech of Dumb Beasts -- 11 Extinction, Representation, Agency: The Case of the Dodo -- 12 Cetaceans and Sentiment -- 13 Zones of Contagion: The Singapore Body Politic and the Body of the Street-Cat -- 14 When is Nature Not? -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1 Image; 1 Contemporary Art and Animal Rights; 2 Marching on Thin Ice: The Politics of Penguin Films; 4 Naming and the Unspeakable: Representations of Animal Deaths in Some Recent South African Print Media; 5 Possum Magic, Possum Menace: Wildlife Control and the Demonisation of Cuteness; PART 2 Ethics; 6 Pleasure's Moral Worth; 7 The Nature of the Experimental Animal: Evolution, Vivisection, and the Victorian Environment
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 "Room on the Ark?": The Symbolic Nature of U.S. Pet Evacuation Statutes for Nonhuman Animals9 Making Animals Matter: Why the Art World Needs to Rethink the Representation of Animals; PART 3 Agency; 10 The Speech of Dumb Beasts; 11 Extinction, Representation, Agency: The Case of the Dodo; 12 Cetaceans and Sentiment; 13 Zones of Contagion: The Singapore Body Politic and the Body of the Street-Cat; 14 When Is Nature Not?; Bibliography; Index;
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789401202701
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (203 pages)
    Series Statement: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 2 v.v. 2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Haney, William S., 1947 - Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction
    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; local ; Biotechnology ; Social aspects ; Biotechnology in literature ; Consciousness ; Social aspects ; Cyborgs in literature ; Mind and body ; Science fiction ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Biotechnology in literature ; Biotechnology Social aspects ; Consciousness Social aspects ; Cyborgs in literature ; Mind and body ; Science fiction Social aspects ; Cyberspace ; Virtuelle Realität ; Informationstechnik ; Science-Fiction-Literatur
    Abstract: Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically projecting the mind outward through the continuity of thought and the material world, as through telepresence and other forms of prosthetic enhancements. Posthumanism envisions a biology/machine symbiosis that will promote this extension, arguably at the expense of the natural tendency of the mind to move toward pure consciousness. As each chapter of this book contends, by forcibly overextending and thus jeopardizing the neurophysiology of consciousness, the posthuman condition could in the long term undermine human nature, defined as the effortless capacity for transcending the mind's conceptual content. Presented here for the first time, the essential argument of this book is more than a warning; it gives a direction: far better to practice patience and develop pure consciousness and evolve into a higher human being than to fall prey to the Faustian temptations of biotechnological power. As argued throughout the book, each person must choose for him or herself between the technological extension of physical experience through mind, body and world on the one hand, and the natural powers of human consciousness on the other as a means to realize their ultimate vision.
    Abstract: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Consciousness and the Posthuman -- Chapter 2: The Latent Powers of Consciousness vs. Bionic Humans -- Chapter 3: Derrida's Indian Literary Subtext -- Chapter 4: Consciousness and the Posthuman in Short Fiction -- Chapter 5: Frankenstein: The Monster's Constructedness and the Narrativity of Consciousness -- Chapter 6: William Gibson's Neuromancer: Technological Ambiguity -- Chapter 7: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash: Humans are not Computers -- Chapter 8: Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: Unicorns, Elephants and Immortality -- Chapter 9: Cyborg Revelations: Marge Piercy's He, She and It -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Survival of Human Nature -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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