Animal Catalyst

Patricia MacCormack is Reader in English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Cinesexuality (2008) and Posthuman Ethics (2012).

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Patricia MacCormackPart I: New Abolitionist Approaches1. The War on Compassion, Carol J. Adams2. Legal Technology Confronts Speciesism or We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us, John T. Maher 3. ‘Beyond’ the Singular? Ecology, Subjectivity, Politics, Danielle SandsPart II: Animal Mediators: Philosophy, Film, Literature4. ‘Etre aux aguets’: Deleuze, Creation and Territorialization, Charles J. Stivale5. ‘Out of the Labyrinth, into the Métro: Becoming-animal, the Waking Dream and Movements of World in Raymond Queneau and Louis Malle’s Zazie dans le métro.’, Colin Gardner6. The Animal That Therefore I Am Not: Inhuman Mediations on the Ultimate Degeneration of Bios and Zoe via the Inevitable Process of Phenomenophagism, Charlie Blake7. The Taste of Living, Chrysanthi NigianniPart III: Ahumanity: A Liberation of Life 8. Suicide for Animals, Claire Colebrook9. Dark Pedagogy, Jason Wallin10. Self-Harm, Human Harm?, Ruth McPhee11. After Life, Patricia MacCormackBibliographyIndex

How do "we" relate to animals? Treating "them" with respect and granting "them" legal rights just isn't enough. The chapters in this book propose more radical approaches- starting with the rejection of the whole "we vs. them" framework. The Animal Catalyst is an urgent and necessary book, because it tells us that we cannot love and care for others without questioning and undoing ourselves.