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Outside the Anthropological Machine Chiara Mengozzi

Outside the Anthropological Machine By Chiara Mengozzi

Outside the Anthropological Machine by Chiara Mengozzi


Summary

This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our understanding of animals' lives and points of view. By decentering human concerns and foregrounding animals' perceptual and cognitive worlds, it urges us to unlearn no more and no less than our species' arrogance.

Outside the Anthropological Machine Summary

Outside the Anthropological Machine: Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies by Chiara Mengozzi

In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species' arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our being-in-the-world as Homo sapiens, this monograph argues, starts precisely from the way we relate to our closer companion species. The authors gathered here endeavour to find multiple exit strategies from the anthropocentric paradigms that have bound the human and social sciences. Part I investigates the unexplored margins of human history by re-reading historical events, literary texts, and scientific findings from an animal's perspective, rather than a human's. Part II explores different forms of human-animal relationships, putting the emphasis on the institutions, spaces, and discourses that frame our interactions with animals. Part III engages with processes of translation that aim to render animals' experience and perception into human words and visual language.

About Chiara Mengozzi

Chiara Mengozzi is a researcher at Charles University in Prague (Faculty of Arts), where she teaches literary theory, as well as Italian and French contemporary literatures. She is also Associated Researcher at CEFRES in Prague (French Research Center in Social Sciences). Her research focuses on animal studies, ecocriticism, climate fiction, postcolonial and migrant literatures, world literature, and translation and reception theory. She is the author of an Italian monograph entitled Narrazioni contese. Vent'anni di scritture italiane della migrazione (2013). She is currently investigating the relation between science and literature in the context of climate change.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Ways Out of the Anthropological Machine, or How and Why to Defamiliarize Ourselves

Chiara Mengozzi

Part I

Playing a Part in the Dramaturgy of the Real: (Hi)story on the Side of Animals

1. A Giraffe's Journey to France (1826-1827): Recording the Encounter From the Animal's Point of View

Eric Baratay

2. Structures of Captivity and Animal Agency: The London Zoo, ca. 1865 to the Present Times

Violette Pouillard

3. Atlantic History From the Saddle: The Role of Horses in the Slave-Trading Atlantic World

Rachael L. Pasierowska

4. Re-animalizing Animals, Re-animating Humans


Michal Krzykawski



5.

Laika's Lullabies: Post-anthropocentric Representations of the First Dog in Space

Anita Jarzyna

6. The Blind Spot of the Plot: Thinking Beyond Human With Karel Capek

Chiara Mengozzi

Part II

I Relate, Therefore I Am: Human-Animal Encounters

7. Animals and Their Keepers in Belle Epoque Postcards of the Jardin des Plantes Menagerie

Maria P. Gindhart

8. Seeing Eye to Eye, Through a Glass Clearly? Blurring the Boundary Between Humans and Animals

Quentin Montagne

9. Flesh, Fur, and Forgetting

Kari Weil

10. Animals as Monsters,Victims, and Models in the Age of Decadence

Eva Voldrichova Berankova

Part III

Across the Narrow Abyss of Non-comprehension: Entering Animals' Lives

11. Literature and Animal Expressiveness: On the Cognitive and Ethic Aspects of Zoopoetics

Anne Simon

12. Une langue ou une musique inouie, assez inhumaine...: Narrative Voice and the Question of the Animal

Kari Driscoll

13. From Being a Beast to Becoming-Animal: Literary Experiments in Crossing the Species Divide

Jonathan Pollock

14. Cameras That Pose as Animals: Imagining Non-human Animals Through the POV Shot

Concepcion Cortes Zulueta

15. Playing (With) the Non-human: The Animal Avatar in Bear Simulator

Michael Fuchs

Additional information

NLS9780367504571
9780367504571
036750457X
Outside the Anthropological Machine: Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies by Chiara Mengozzi
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-02-01
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