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Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Concepts of “Human” and “Animal”

Friday, January 29, 2010

I am working on the last parts of my dissertation and have been wondering about the concepts of human and animal. It is commonly observed in animal studies that the concept of human is constituted through the expulsion of the animal. That is, humans are humans because they are not animals. Obviously, it is recognized [...]

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OSPCA v. THS

Thursday, January 28, 2010

For those interested in such things, the OSPCA has been granted a wide range of relief under the Charities Accounting Act with respect to the THS. In effect, this means that the OSPCA controls money and the animals at the THS. (Paragraph 45 is especially chilling.) This is the first legal account of evidence collected [...]

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Bees and Women Compared

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

From Richard Remnant’s 1637 classic, A Discourse or Historie of Bees.

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Remembering Calvin (January 25, 2009)

Monday, January 25, 2010
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Influential Texts

Friday, January 22, 2010

There have a been a few posts recently on “intellectual biography” and “influential books” (here and here), as well as expressions that this trend continue. I don’t see why I shouldn’t jump on the bandwagon as well.
For myself, unlike some of the others pursuing these sorts of posts, I wouldn’t say that there have been [...]

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Human experimentation for animals?

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Apparently all my recent posts relate to re-reading material for lecture. From Piers Beirne’s “For a Nonspeciesist Criminology: Animal Abuse as an Object of Study” (Criminology 37(1): 117-47):
Singer’s many exhortations have successfully acquired a large and quite influential following. But it must be said that his act-utilitarianism does not place the liberation of animals from [...]

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“Puritan Streak”

Sunday, January 3, 2010

From Michael Pollan’s essay, “An Animal’s Place“:
A deep Puritan streak pervades animal rights activists, an abiding discomfort not only with our animality, but with animal’s animality too.
This is offered, I think, as a critique–the point being made by a “literary journalist” is often rather obscure, notwithstanding the rather plain prose. The problem, however, is that [...]

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