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The Animal Catalyst ALSO AVAILABLE FROM BLOOMSBURY The Sexual Politics of Meat (20th Anniversary Edition), Carol J. Adams Beyond Animal Rights, Tony Milligan The Animal Catalyst Towards Ahuman Theory EDITED BY PATRICIA MACCORMACK LONDON • NEW DELHI • NEW YORK • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com Bloomsbury is a registered trade mark of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2014 © Patricia MacCormack and Contributors, 2014 Patricia MacCormack and Contributors have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Authors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury Academic or the editor. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-1-4725-2684-7 PB: 978-1-4725-3444-6 ePDF: 978-1-4725-2927-5 ePub: 978-1-4725-2775-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd For Steve Cain and Maria Desposito CONTENTS Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xii Introduction Patricia MacCormack 1 PART ONE New Abolitionist Approaches 13 1 The War on Compassion Carol J. Adams 15 2 Legal Technology Confronts Speciesism, or We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us John T. Maher 27 3 ‘Beyond’ the Singular? Ecology, Subjectivity, Politics Danielle Sands 49 PART TWO Animal Mediators: Philosophy, Film, Literature 67 4 Etre aux aguets: Deleuze, Creation and Territorialization Charles J. Stivale 69 5 Out of the Labyrinth, into the Métro: Becoming-animal, the Waking Dream and Movements of World in Raymond Queneau and Louis Malle’s Zazie dans le métro Colin Gardner 81 viii CONTENTS 6 The Animal That Therefore I Am Not: Inhuman Mediations on the Ultimate Degeneration of Bios and Zoe via the Inevitable Process of Phenomenophagism Charlie Blake 91 7 The Taste of Living Chrysanthi Nigianni 111 PART THREE Ahumanity: A Liberation of Life 131 8 Suicide for Animals Claire Colebrook 133 9 Dark Pedagogy Jason Wallin 145 10 Self-Harm, Human Harm? Ruth McPhee 163 11 After Life Patricia MacCormack 177 Bibliography 189 Index 204 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Carol J. Adams is an American writer, feminist and animal rights advocate. She is the author of several books, including The Sexual Politics of Meat (now in its 20th anniversary edition) and The Pornography of Meat (2004). Adams has published more than 100 articles or entries in journals, books, magazines and encyclopaedias on vegetarianism, animal rights, domestic violence and sexual abuse. She is internationally recognized as one of the most influential writers on animal activism, anti-speciesism and feminism, and her work continues to influence in these areas. Charlie Blake is an executive editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities and was until recently Head of the Department of Film, Media and Communications at the Liverpool Hope University. He has recently co-edited studies on Sadism, Masochism and Philosophy, on Animality, Posthumanity and Transhumanism, and has published on Bataille and Divine Dissipation, Sonic Spectrality, the Politics of Apiasophy and Pornotheology. He is currently working on studies of Immanence and Speculative Materialism and Deleuze and Affect. Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at the Penn State University. Her most recent books include Theory and the Disappearing Future (2012), co-authored with Tom Cohen and J. Hillis Miller, and Death of the Posthuman (2013). Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches in the departments of Art, Film & Media Studies, Comparative Literature, the History of Art & Architecture as well as the College of Creative Studies. He is the author of Joseph Losey (2004); Karel Reisz (UP 2006); and a new critical study of Samuel Beckett’s film and television work entitled Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event: Peephole Art (2012). Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy in English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
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