Animal Revolution

Ron Broglio is professor of English, director of Desert Humanities, and associate director of the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University. He is author or editor of several books, including Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life and Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art (Minnesota, 2011).Media and participatory practice artist Marina Zurkow connects people to nature–culture tensions and environmental messes, offering humor and new ways of knowing, connecting, and feeling. She is working on visualizing future oceans and connecting eaters to food opportunities in changing climates.Eugene Thacker is the author of several books, including In the Dust of This Planet and Infinite Resignation. He teaches at The New School in New York City.

• Manifesto: Animal RevolutionPart I1. There Are No Miracles for Animals2. Putting a Horse before the Cart3. Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?4. Beyond Confines and toward Hospitality5. Laugh Now, but One Day We’ll Be in Charge6. The Exploit7. Return of the RepressedInterlude: MultiplicitiesPart II8. The State of the Union9. Exploit Continued, or The Exploit Exploits10. Other Intelligences11. Giving Voice12. Voice and Other Intelligences Continued13. The Crack14. Bearing WitnessCoda, or Why We Need Better StoriesAfterword: Beasts of SorrowEugene ThackerAcknowledgmentsIndex

"Might animals be deliberately ‘jamming the anthropological machine’? This is the brilliant question Animal Revolution asks its readers to consider through sly interpretations of destructive animal acts. Readers will enjoy the shrewdness Ron Broglio lends to various animal behaviors, even as his insights inevitably reveal our own shortsightedness and remind us that we are the most invasive and destructive species."-Kari Weil, author of Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France"Ron Broglio’s Animal Revolution holds human beings accountable for this myopic, dichotomous approach to animals. There is always something else, or something other, when it comes to the animal. There is no ‘animal’ without the human to name it as such; animals themselves could not care less."-Eugene Thacker, from the Afterword "Animal Revolution is proof positive that creativity and play not only belong in academic writing but also benefit it."-H-Net Reviews   "Animal Revolution, written during the height of the global pandemic, redefines what constitutes “revolution” and who-or specifically what-might have reason to take part in one."-Edge Effects