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Coming up! For more information see http://www.popularcultureandphilosophy.com/ . Email abstracts and a c.v. to: huss.john@gmail.com. Critical Photography Series THE BLIND Editor: Alfredo Crammeroti Images of animals are all around us. Yet the visibility offered by wildlife photography can't help but contribute to an image of the animal as fundamentally separate from the human. Yet how can we get closer to animals without making them aware of us or changing their relationship to their environment? 'The Blind' might be the answer. Developed for naturalists by the Institute of Critical Zoologists (a fictional art construct by artist Zhao Renhui), the blind is a camouflage cloak that works on the principle that an object vanishes from sight if light rays striking it are not reflected, but are instead forced to flow around as if it were not there. In fifty stunning colour photographs, this volume shows the cloak tested in nature reserves, the arctic, grasslands, and urban environments. The images show the lone figure of an observer surveying the landscape for animals, trying his best to blend into his surroundings and failing at it in the process. The Blind offers an opportunity to explore how we see animals in photography and, in parallel to this exploration which questions the human attitude towards watching animals, the text examines the role of Darwin's evolutionary theory in the context of human relations. It critically opens up for discussion the relevance of Social Darwinism in shaping our current worldviews in the fields of geopolitics, social sciences and humanitarian relief. Deadline for submission 31 December 2011 Organisers are seeking an essay of up to 20,000 words (published or unpublished) that might compliment this body of work, directly or indirectly. There is a modest fee available for the selected essay. Please send enquiries to Renhui@criticalzoologists.org -Renhui, Artist or Alcramer@gmail.com - Alfredo Crammeroti, Editor of Critical Photography Series For more about the book series (Critical Photography) see: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Series,id=19/ For more about the Institute of Critical Zoologists see: http://criticalzoologists.org/projects/blind/blind_main.html 42
Animal Fiction Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch. Text Publishing, 2011 A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal. Following an incident with an escaped tiger, Jaffy, a nineteenth-century street urchin, goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker prize. Animal People by Charlotte Wood. Allen and Unwin, 2011. Animal People is a portrait of urban life, a meditation on the conflicted nature of humananimal relationships, and a masterpiece of storytelling. The novel invites readers to question the way we think about animals – what makes an ‗animal person‘? What value do we, as a society, place on the lives of creatures? Do we brutalise our pets even as we love them? What‘s wrong with anthropomorphism anyway? See Charlotte Wood's website http://www.charlottewood.com.au/animalpeople.html for more about this book, including an article written by her for the Australian Good Weekend magazine. The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obrecht. Random House, 2011. In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather‘s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with ―the deathless man.‖ But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger‘s wife. Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011. The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of his friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O‘Hagan. Allen and Unwin, 2010. In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. This is his story. Maf the dog was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life. Not only a picaresque hero himself, he was also a scholar of the adventuring rogue in literature and art, witnessing the rise of America's new liberalism, civil rights, the space race, the New York critics, and he was Marilyn Monroe's constant companion. [I loved Maf! – Ed.] Ape House by Sara Gruen. Bond Street Books, 2010. Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships—but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn‘t understand people, but animals she gets— especially the bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she‘s ever felt among humans . . . until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what‘s really going on inside. Sara Gruen is also author of Water for Elephants. 43
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