In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics of the animal, but an integrally animal politics, freed from connotations of the "primitive" state of nature and the accompanying presuppositions about instinct permeating modern t...(展开全部)

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published by Duke University Press.

Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts—perfect nutritional harmony. From wild baboons to gooey slime molds, most every living organism instinctually knows how to balance their diets, except modern-day humans. When and why did we lose this ability, and how ...(展开全部)

It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism”—a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed toward the recovery of a “we” at the point of “our” violent origin. Best argues that ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly: If you thought McDonald's and strip malls were the ugliest of America's cultural exports, think again. Western ideas about mental illness-from anorexia to post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, general anxiety and clinical depression-as well as Western treatments have been sweeping the globe with alarming speed, argues journalist Watters (Urban T...(展开全部)

托马斯 萨顿多夫，澳大利亚昆士兰大学心理学教授，儿童和非人类灵长类动物认知发展方面的专家。萨顿多夫出生并成长于德国，现居澳大利亚布里斯班，对其研究工作的报道见诸《纽约时报》《科学》（Science）《发现》（Discover）等报刊媒体。

eminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pakistan, South Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Kenya and The Cree Nation; a bold emergent trans cinem...(展开全部)

Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha argues that animals were impacted and transformed by colonial subjugation. By examining the writings of Burmese nationalists and the experiences of subaltern groups, he also shows how animals were mobi...(展开全部)

贺循失明后，执意回老家旧宅生活。　　春光明媚，爬藤月季探出别墅大门，贺循深居简出，短短几个月，赶走了三个保姆。　　最后招进来的那个女保姆，工作不负责，爱占小便宜，满嘴谎话，举止轻浮。　　她说自己年龄三十八，小眼歪嘴满脸雀斑，丧夫守寡，孤苦无依，求他不要解雇她。　 贺循心里越觉越蹊跷。　　后来他试图拼凑出这个女人的形象——二十八岁，单亲妈妈，染头发穿舞裙，坑蒙拐骗的小太妹长大了。 # 美丽的梦和美丽的诗一样/都是可遇而不可求的/常常在最没能料到的时刻里出现 我喜欢那样的梦/在梦里 一切都可以重新开始/一切都可以慢慢解释/心里甚至还能感觉到所有被浪费的时光 竟然都能重回时的狂喜和感激 # （席慕蓉）阅读指南：1.女主有娃（孩子不是男主的）2.雷点很多，有任意雷点者慎入3.不定时更新