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Karl Steel’s How To Make A Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages
In one half of a pair of critical reviews looking at recent titles in animal studies, Nicole Shukin examines Karl Steel’s How to Make a Human (Steel reviews Shukin in the other half). In particular, Shukin discusses Steel’s framing of “the human” in terms of medieval violence, and she considers what that framing can offer to today’s political and ethical conversations.
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/humanizing)
Malene Fonnes - 25.09.2017 - 15:31
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Against Animal Authenticity, Against the Forced March of the Now: a review of Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital
In one half of a pair of critical reviews looking at recent titles in animal studies, Karl Steel examines Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital (Shukin reviews Steel in the other half). In particular, Steel looks at Shukin’s biopolitical framework, and considers how that framework challenges not only our conception of what constitutes the animal, but also–and more to the bone–our conception of the capacity of fields like animal studies.
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/animal_capital)
Malene Fonnes - 25.09.2017 - 15:36
