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.

In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human condition but one that veterinarians c...(展开全部)

迈克尔•普鸣（Michael Puett）：哈佛大学东亚语言与文化系中国历史方向教授、宗教研究委员会主席。他为本科生开设的中国伦理与政治课是哈佛大学最受欢迎的课程之一。他因在本科生教育中的出色表现获得哈佛大学教授职位。 克里斯蒂娜•格罗斯-洛（Christine Gross-Loh）：作家和自由撰稿人，哈佛大学东亚历史专业博士，其作品见于包括《华尔街日报》《大西洋月刊》《赫芬顿邮报》在内的众多出版物。

Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her and the way people worked. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in b...(展开全部)

Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her and the way people worked. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in b...(展开全部)

迈克尔•普鸣（Michael Puett）：哈佛大学东亚语言与文化系中国历史方向教授、宗教研究委员会主席。他为本科生开设的中国伦理与政治课是哈佛大学最受欢迎的课程之一。他因在本科生教育中的出色表现获得哈佛大学教授职位。 克里斯蒂娜•格罗斯-洛（Christine Gross-Loh）：作家和自由撰稿人，哈佛大学东亚历史专业博士，其作品见于包括《华尔街日报》《大西洋月刊》《赫芬顿邮报》在内的众多出版物。

A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Essential reading about love, life and care' Kate Mosse 'Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in our own futures. If it's not you or me, it's someone we love.' After her own father's death from dementia, the writer and campaigner Nicci Gerrard set out to explore the illness that ...(展开全部)

Sentient assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures - from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe - to understand what it means to be human. Through their eyes, ears, skins, tongues and noses, the furred, finned and feathered reveal how we sense and make sense of the world, as well as the untold scientific revolution stirring in the field of human perception. The h...(展开全部)

Sentient assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures - from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe - to understand what it means to be human. Through their eyes, ears, skins, tongues and noses, the furred, finned and feathered reveal how we sense and make sense of the world, as well as the untold scientific revolution stirring in the field of human perception. The h...(展开全部)