ReadingAnimals

Curious what an old, white, European guy has to say about gender and politics in the US and what he claims it does / doesn’t have to do with animals?

I think it comes down to the fact that these books are a record of my reading history, and thus part of my intellectual evolution. They aren’t just waterlogged stacks of paper, they are a record of my interests and efforts. They are intellectual artefacts.

The hybridization of anthropology and ethology might actually give us some useful and important ways for thinking about animal cultures and subjectivity.

Imagine how unhelpful communication might be if we didn’t know who we were communicating with simply by hearing them

I adore the research inspired by such reading because I can follow long, winding, sometimes unexpected paths. I end up backwards, sideways, even completely off-course relative to where I began. And this is in addition to the gift of the text itself.