Being Human

Ron Broglio is Director of Graduate Studies at Arizona State University, USA, and Senior Scholar at the university’s Global Institute of Sustainability. He is author of Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art and Technologies of the Picturesque.Frederick Young is faculty at the University of California, Merced, USA. He collaborates with conceptual artists and is working on a theoretical treatise on revolution, animality and technics. He is the author of Toward an Ethics of the Political and has published on Critical Theory and Art Practice.

• 1. Introduction Ron Broglio 2. Animal Spirits: Philosomorphism and the Background Revolts of Cinema John Mullarkey 3. Speculative Realism in Chains: A Love Story Marcel O’Gorman 4. A Picture Book of Invisible Worlds: Semblances of Insects and Humans in Jakob von Uexküll’s Laboratory Stephen Loo and Undine Sellbach 5. New Tricks Tom Tyler 6. Apophatic Animality: Lautréamont, Bachelard, and the Bliss of Metamorphosis Eugene Thacker 7. Honeycomb Series Allison Hunter 8. Insects and Canaries: Medianatures and Aesthetics of the Invisible Jussi Parikka 9. Tolstoy’s Bestiary: Animality and Animosity in The Kreutzer Sonata Dominic Pettman 10. A Global Cinematic Zone of Animal and Technology Seung-hoon Jeong 11. Doing and Saying Stupid Things in the Twentieth Century: Bêtise and Animality in Deleuze and Derrida Bernard Stiegler 12. Five Heraldic Animals (for Eduardo Kac) Steve Baker 13. After Animality, Before the Law: Interview with Cary Wolfe Ron Broglio