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C I F E R A E This page intentionally left blank POSTHUMANITIES Cary Wolfe, Series Editor 19 CIFERAE: A Bestiary in Five Fingers 10 Cosmopolitics II Tom Tyler Isabelle Stengers 18 Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics 9 Cosmopolitics I from Heidegger to Agamben Isabelle Stengers Timothy C. Campbell 8 What Is Posthumanism? 17 Surface Encounters: Cary Wolfe Thinking with Animals and Art 7 Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic Ron Broglio John Protevi 16 Against Ecological Sovereignty: 6 Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World Nicole Shukin Mick Smith 5 Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology 15 Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines and Politics Susan McHugh David Wills 14 Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines 4 Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy Dominic Pettman Roberto Esposito 13 Junkware 3 When Species Meet Thierry Bardini Donna J. Haraway 12 A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and 2 The Poetics of DNA Humans, with A Theory of Meaning Judith Roof Jakob von Uexküll 1 The Parasite 11 Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals Michel Serres and Technology Jussi Parikka C I F E R A E POSTHUMANITIES 19 A Bestiary in Five Fingers Tom Tyler University of Minnesota Press : minneapolis : london The ornamental capitals at the beginning of each chapter Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper were designed in 1519 by the printer Jacques Sacon of Lyons, France. The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. See pages 293–95 for information on previously published material in this book. library of Congress CaTaloging-in-publiCaTion daTa Tyler, Tom, 1968– Copyright 2012 by the Regents of the University Ciferae : a bestiary in five fingers / Tom Tyler. of Minnesota (Posthumanities ; 19) Includes bibliographical references and index. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be ISBN 978-0-8166-6543-3 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978- reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in 0-8166-6544-0 (pb : alk. paper) any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo- 1. Knowledge, Theory of. 2. Animals—Miscellanea. copying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written 3. Bestiaries. I. Title. permission of the publisher. BD161.T95 2012 128—dc23 Published by the University of Minnesota Press 2012000011 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The word “beasTs ” should properly be used about lions, leopards, and tigers, wolves, and foxes, dogs, apes and others which rage about with tooth and claw, with the exception of snakes. Further, they are beasts because of the violence with which they rage, and are known as “wild” (ferus) because they are accustomed to freedom by nature and are driven (feranTur) by their own wishes. For their wills are free, and they wander hither and thither, and where the spirit (animus) will lead them, there they roam. T. h. whiTe The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation from a Latin Bes- tiary of the Twelfth Century (translation modified) C I F E R A E Acknowledgments xi Prelude 1 VallaTus indiCibus rideTo mulTum eT digiTum mediCo aTque siCariis porrigiTo medium TesTiCuli arieTini Surrounded by Laugh Loudly and On the Ring Finger Informers and Assassins Flip Them the Bird a Ram’s Testicles 9 77 109 Like Water in Water 9 Two Hands Are Better The Digestive System Than One 77 of Our Mind 109 Into Your Hand They Are Delivered 13 The Truth about Mice An Unknown Something 116 and Ducks 82 Deciphering Deciphering 22 Praying to the Aliens 125 The Philosopher and the Gnat 89 Prickly Porcupines Nothing to Phone Home About 130 and Docile Dogs 29 The Birds and the Bees 96 From Noumena to Nebula 139 An ABC of Animals 41 The Back of a Tiger 104 Those Who Like to Think So 144 If a Lion Had Hands 50 One Ring to Rule Them All 156 Quia Ego Nominor Leo 64 Taking Animals in Hand 71 A Bestiary in Five Fingers digiTo minimo mundum manus parVa, Coda 263 uniVersum exCiTes maiori adiuTrix, pollex Bibliography 267 With Your Little Finger The Thumb Publication History You Would Awaken Is a Little Hand, and Permissions 293 the Whole World Assistant to the Greater Index 297 163 211 The Eyes Have It 163 To We or Not to We 211 A Tale of Three Fish 175 If I Had a Hammer 216 Handing On and Gathering In 184 The Rule of Thumb 227 Bird Brains 191 Four Hands Good, Two Hands Bad 244 Getting Stuck In 207 A Report to an Academy 255
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