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1. 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

2. Cary Wolfe, Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013)

   John Bruni contends that Cary Wolfe’s latest book “Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame” discusses the “legal issues that inform our relationships with non-human animals.” Bruni writes that in doing so Wolfe dissects the process of law-making and appearing “before the law” as animals, which might be potentially harmful and eclipse the existence of animals beyond the human sphere. According to Bruni what distinguishes Wolfe’s perspective is that he does not promote any form of “ecological self-righteousness” but rather asks the question whether we need to move beyond species-based discourses that constantly pits humans and animals against each other in an essentially unwinnable impasse—to a more ethical approach that may expand the “community of living.”

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/animality)

   Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:31

3. Review of Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self

   Beginning his review by reflecting on the book’s cover art, John Bruni speculates that a punk aesthetic runs throughout Alaimo’s posthuman environmentalism. Providing brief treatments of each chapter, he argues that the book’s trans-corporeal understanding of the relationship between bodies and places disrupts “the very heart of what we know about ourselves.”

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/punk)

   Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:47

4. Finding the Human in "the messy, contingent, emergent mix of the material world": Embodiment, Place, and Materiality in Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures

   In this review Veronica Vold charts the posthuman environmental ethic in Stacy Alaimo’s Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self and notes how the text draws together issues of race, (dis)ability, and the environment in a way that disrupts the boundaries between bodies and places.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/bodily) 

   Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:57

5. Being Not Us

   John Bruni suggests that Cary Wolfe’s new essay collection explores the various cognitive fictions of humanism and carves out a functional role for systems-influenced theory and art.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/un-mapped)

   Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 13:27

6. Man Saved by Wolfe

   In this review of Cary Wolfe’s new essay collection, What is Posthumanism?, Neil Badmington reflects on the ebb and flow of “the posthuman” and ponders what Wolfe’s work suggests for the future of the field.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/savedbywolfe)

   Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 13:32