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Monthly Archives: December 2009

CFP: Foucault and Animals

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Call For Abstracts: Foucault and Animals
Matthew Chrulew and Dinesh Wadiwel (Eds)
“The animal in man no longer has any value as the sign of a Beyond; it has become his madness, without a relation to anything but itself; his madness in the state of nature.”
“it is a technique of training, of dressage, that ‘despotically excludes in [...]

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Remembering Mickey (December 9, 2006)

Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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National Day of Rememberance and Action on Violence Against Women

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Victims of the Montreal Massacre at l’École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Montreal Massacre on Wikipedia
One of the very few articles in the Canadian English media this year
CBC Digital Archives

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The “Speculative Animal” Event

Saturday, December 5, 2009

What follows is my contribution to the “Speculative Animal” event. Comments are closed here, but please feel free to comment at The Inhumanities.

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The meaning of “humane”

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ takeover of the Toronto Humane Society continues, despite the fact that their warrant expired at midnight yesterday. There have been widespread reports of employee intimidation by the OSPCA and the organization even demanded that an entire shift of regularly scheduled employees leave the THS, apparently [...]

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