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Showing posts with label humanity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humanity. Show all posts
7 Mar 2023

Rupert Birkin and the Ichthyosaur

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French illustrator Édouard Riou  gives us his take on the ichthyosaur in 1863 [1]   I.    Rupert Birkin famously declares that he would like...
4 Nov 2021

If We Could Talk to the Animals

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Sperm whale ( Physeter macrocephalus )     They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains  the hottest blood of all ... [1]     As far as I ...
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17 Dec 2020

Crawling on All Fours in Shaggy Inhumanity ...

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William Blake: Nebuchadnezzar (c. 1795-1805) tate.org.uk     I. The Case of King Nebuchadnezzar   Most people are probably vaguely familia...
24 May 2016

On Bolshevism and Immortality: the Case of Arseny Tarkovsky

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What I know about the twentieth century Russian poet and translator Arseny Tarkovsky can pretty much be written on the back of a postage st...
19 Nov 2015

Dog Bites: On the Question of Man and Animal (and the Becoming-Animal of Man)

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Photo by Eija-Liisa Ahtila from the eight part series  of images entitled  Dog Bites (1992-97) Like Lou Carrington, I’ve always be...
5 Mar 2015

On The Horror of Living in the Moment

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I used to celebrate the idea of living in the moment . That is to say, of enjoying the very nowness of time with neither memory of...
8 Nov 2013

Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy

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The Company of Wolves , (dir. Neil Jordan, 1984) One of Nietzsche's most daring strategies is to call into question the tr...