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The Inhumanities and Speculative Heresy are hosting a cross-blog event on the topic of critical animal studies from the perspective of speculative realism. The first post up – on Levinas, the Other, and animals – has set the stage for what promises to be a lively, rich discussion, centered around the following question:
While speculative realism [...]
Makes perfect sense to me. I’ve always been suspicious of the airline “baggage” conditions for pets, and I know more than a few people who consciously or unconsciously don’t travel for pet-related reasons.
Petairways:
Each time pets move anywhere, from the Pet Lounge to the pet limo or from the pet limo to the plane, we track and record [...]
Even Nicholas Kristof is acknowledging animal rights as a legitimate, opposed to ‘absurd’ or ‘radical’, cause. He even muses over the historical nature of what we happen to consider a self-evident, obvious ‘right’.
For most of history, all of this would have been unimaginable even to people of the most refined ethical sensibility (granted, for many [...]
An essential animal-friendly personal care product that’s often overlooked:
Contraceptives may have been tested on animals or contain animal-derived ingredients. Condoms are usually made from latex. Although not present in the finished product, most condoms utilise casein, a milk protein, during processing. Some also contain milk powder.
Glyde health are registered with The Vegan Society and are thus [...]
Greg Mankiw, the well-known Harvard economist, mentioned in passing in a post today that as a freshman at Princeton more than thirty years ago he had the good fortune of taking an introductory philosophy course taught by Richard Rorty. The lessons learned have stuck with him. In a post honoring Rorty’s recent death, Mankiw recounted [...]
If wondering what it’s like to be a bat, as the philosopher Thomas Nagel famously did in a 1974 essay, no longer sates our appetite for the futile, designing simulations for them might. For more than thirty years now, as chronicled in Richard D’Eath’s extensive review, “Can video images imitate real stimuli in animal behaviour [...]
Advertising Agency: Germaine, Antwerp, Belgium
Creative Director: André Plaisier
Art Directors: Alexis Bellavoine, Jeroen Goossens
Copywriter: Pieter Claeys
Photographer: Kurt Stallaert
Retouching: Edwin Veer
Published: October 2008
Now I may be wrong about this but I don’t think the World Wildlife Fund explicitly promotes vegetarianism. (They were in fact recently caught selling fish sticks to raise money for fish conservation; but on [...]
If animal scientists have traditionally assessed primate “intelligence” with explicitly anthropocentric criteria — language capacity, for instance — it should also be pointed out that these assessments have been carried out at the neglect of the ways in which animals actually do experience the world. As Kaplan & Rogers (2002: 502) recently observed:
“In the main, [...]
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