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Tom Regan: We are all the subject-of-a-life.

February 21, 2017 by cg

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Email Tom Reagan died Friday morning, Feb 17, 2017 in Raleigh, North Carolina. If you are involved with animal rights, liberation, philosophy, animal activism or advocacy, you may have already heard this. If you haven’t been following these areas, then news of his passing has not reached you. For […]

Categories: animal consciousness, Art with animals, critical animal studies, Culture and Animals Foundation, ethics, human-animal studies, justice, Tom Regan

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“Hard Destiny: Julie Andreyev’s and Simon Lysander Overstall’s ‘Salmon People’ ”

November 20, 2016 by cg

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Email “Here, we are witness to the salmon themselves as people, both collectively and individually with their own cultural traditions and specific birthplaces. Here, their underwater lives are not only visible to us, but eclipse the human world above.” ~~from the essay Last fall I was excited to be […]

Categories: aesthetics, animal consciousness, animal creativity, Art with animals, climate change

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We will sing the world

May 3, 2016 by cg

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Email Back in Quebec, after a difficult year in San Francisco. I arrived to find the cabin surrounded by snow, the pond and field across the creek a luminous white in the moonlight. The next day the snow had melted and the field was a thatched brown that turned coppery […]

Categories: animal cognition, animal consciousness

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Music for Elephants: a must see film on animal creativity and human compassion

July 2, 2015 by cg

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Email Today I came across a beautiful and moving film by Amanda Feldon while doing research for the second chapter of Animal Influence. A documentary produced in 2014 and hosted on cultureunlplugged.com Music for Elephants is the story of one musician’s quest to “try to make amends for elephants’ suffering […]

Categories: animal consciousness, animal creativity, Art with animals, compassion, Elephants, language, music

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Bird Language

June 15, 2015 by cg

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn EmailI have been staying on a friend’s land in Quebec. It has been unusually rainy, as it has been for large parts of eastern North America. I struggle with rain and overcast weather in the winter but having it here in summer is unsettling. The sun shone late in the […]

Categories: animal cognition, animal consciousness, animal creativity, Birds, language

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The Struggle for Compassion and Justice through Critical Animal Studies

May 5, 2015 by cg

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn EmailMy essay in the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies, edited by Linda Kaloff, is entitled The Struggle for Compassion and Justice through Critical Animal Studies and begins this way: The black and white calf, lying in a curled heap on the bottom of the narrow wooden stall stained with […]

Categories: animal industrial complex, compassion, critical animal studies, critical theory, factory farming, feminism, Frankfurt School, globalization, justice

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Animal Influence Issue 2

January 26, 2015 by cg

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn EmailAs Guest Curator of Interactive Futures (IF)’11: Animal Influence, held November 17-19, 2011 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, at Intersection Digital Studios (IDS), at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD) I collaborated with Giovanni Aloi, Editor-in Chief, of the online international journal Antennae, to produce a double issue reflecting […]

Categories: animal cognition, animal consciousness, animal creativity, ethics, Interactive Futures'11, Marc Bekoff, pigs

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Animal Influence Issue 1

January 18, 2015 by cg

Categories: aesthetics, animal cognition, animal consciousness, animal creativity, Art with animals, camera traps, new media

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Animal | Artist

January 5, 2015 by cg

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn EmailI was asked by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, the Managing Editor of Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies to review Steve Baker’s recent book, Artist | Animal (University of Minnesota Press) for Issue 6:1. I have known Steve for some time as he and I were two of the early writers […]

Categories: aesthetics, Art with animals, ethics, human-animal studies, Steve Baker

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Aesthetics of a Virtual World redux

January 4, 2015 by cg

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Email “Aesthetics of a Virtual World” is reprinted in the current issue of Antennae: the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture with a Preface written late last year. This essay was originally published in Leonardo, Volume 28, Number 4, by MIT Press Journals. The entire preface is below. 2014 Preface to […]

Categories: aesthetics, ethics, virtual animals, virtual worlds

What does the camera trap?

December 19, 2014 by cg

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Email September 15, 2013 — Leave a comment This image was originally posted to Flickr by Arddu at http://flickr.com/photos/21178134@N00/190523147 with this description: “Face on with wild tiger in Sumatra. This animal didn’t like camera traps and destroyed three over a weekend.” WHAT DOES THE CAMERA TRAP? According to a recent article […]

Categories: camera traps, climate change, tigers • Tags: TEAMS

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Gut Song Lullaby

December 13, 2014 by cg

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn EmailThe party pony named Snowball stands stoicially still as Karin Bolender talks to a small group of mostly members of the American Anthropological Association about the piece she is about perform. Snowball is . . . a miniature golden-palomino party pony. Melanie Moser, a.k.a. Melt the Master, will perform live […]

Categories: Art with animals, ethics, human-animal studies

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