Animal Revolution

Ron Broglio, Marina Zurkow

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781452966595
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment

 

Animals are staging a revolution—they’re just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, this book threads together news accounts and more in a powerful and timely work of creative, speculative nonfiction that imagines a revolution stirring and asks how humans can be a part of it. If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we should pay attention to how we bump up against animal worlds and how animals will push back. Animal Revolution is a passionate, provocative, cogent call for us to do so.

Ron Broglio reveals how fur and claw and feather and fin are jamming the gears of our social machine. We can try to frame such disruptions as environmental intervention or through the lens of philosophy or biopolitics, but regardless the animals persist beyond our comprehension in reminding us that we too are part of an animal world. Animals see our technologies and machines as invasive beings and, in a nonlinguistic but nonetheless intensive mode of communicating with us, resist our attempts to control them and diminish their habitats. In doing so, they expose the environmental injustices and vulnerabilities in our systems. 

A witty, informative, and captivating work—at the juncture of posthumanism, animal studies, phenomenology, and environmental studies—Broglio reminds us of our inadequacy as humans, not our exceptionalism.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Manifesto: Animal Revolution
• Part I
• Chapter One: There Are No Miracles for Animals
• Chapter Two: Putting a Horse before the Cart
• Chapter Three: Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?
• Chapter Four: Beyond Confines and toward Hospitality
• Chapter Five: Laugh Now, but One Day We’ll Be in Charge
• Chapter Six: The Exploit
• Chapter Seven: Return of the Repressed
• Interlude: Multiplicities
• Part II
• Chapter Eight: The State of the Union
• Chapter Nine: Exploit Continued, or The Exploit Exploits
• Chapter Ten: Other Intelligences
• Chapter Eleven: Giving Voice
• Chapter Twelve: Voice and Other Intelligences Continued
• Chapter Thirteen: The Crack
• Chapter Fourteen: Bearing Witness
• Coda: Why We Need Better Stories
• Afterword: Beasts of Sorrow
• Acknowledgments
• Further Readings
• About the Authors