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[xviii] Karen Barad, “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understand<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> How Matter Comes to Matter,” Signs: <strong>Journal</strong> <strong>of</strong> Women <strong>in</strong> <strong>Culture</strong> and Society, 28 (31, 2003): 801. [xix] Barad, Posthumanist 821. [xx] Jakob von Uexkull. “A Stroll Through the Worlds <strong>of</strong> <strong>Animal</strong>s and Men,” Inst<strong>in</strong>ctive Behavior: <strong>The</strong> Development <strong>of</strong> a Modern Concept, ed. and trans. Claire Schiller. New York: International Universities Press, 1957. [xxi] Neil Evernden, <strong>The</strong> Natural Alien (Toronto: University <strong>of</strong> Toronto Press, 1985) 81. [xxii] Brett Buchanan, Onto-Ethologies: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Animal</strong> Environments <strong>of</strong> Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze, (Albany: SUNY Press, 2008) 32. [xxiii] Perhaps, even the notion <strong>of</strong> an organism is too limit<strong>in</strong>g. I recently attended an <strong>in</strong>trigu<strong>in</strong>g talk by philosopher Frederic Bouchard who questions biology’s reliance on organisms and <strong>in</strong>stead looks for other ways <strong>of</strong> organiz<strong>in</strong>g life. Bouchard argues “the primacy <strong>of</strong> organisms needs to be replaced by the primacy <strong>of</strong> complex multi-species <strong>in</strong>dividuals.” [xxiv] P.S. Lobel, “Predation on a cleanerfish (Labroides) by a hawkfish (Cirrhites)” Copeia (2, 1976): 384-385. [xxv] Barad, Posthumanist 823 [xxvi] Wendy Williams, Kraken: <strong>The</strong> Curious, Excit<strong>in</strong>g and Slightly Disturb<strong>in</strong>g Science <strong>of</strong> Squid (New York: Abrams, 2011); Jennifer Mather, Roland Anderson and James Wood, Octopus: <strong>The</strong> Ocean’s Intelligent Invertebrate, (Portland: Timber Press, 2011); Alv<strong>in</strong> Powell, “Th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g like an Octopus” Harvard Gazette Available: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/10/th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g-likean-octopus/ ; and Sy Montgomery, “Deep Intellect” Orion (November/December, 2011) [xxvii] Montgomery, Deep, Available: http://www.orionmagaz<strong>in</strong>e.org/<strong>in</strong>dex.php/articles/article/6474. [xxviii] Powell, 66 http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/10/th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g-likean-octopus/ [xxix] Montgomery, Deep, Available: http://www.orionmagaz<strong>in</strong>e.org/<strong>in</strong>dex.php/articles/article/6474. [xxx] Mark Norman, Julian F<strong>in</strong>n and Tom Treganza, “Dynamic Mimicry <strong>in</strong> an Indo-Malayan Octopus” Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 268 (2001): 1755-1758. [xxxi] Barad, Posthumanist 817. Leesa Fawcett was tra<strong>in</strong>ed as a mar<strong>in</strong>e biologist, discovered herself as a fem<strong>in</strong>ist and has been work<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> environmental studies for the past two decades. She is Associate Dean, Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, and Coord<strong>in</strong>ator <strong>of</strong> the Graduate Diploma <strong>in</strong> Environmental and Susta<strong>in</strong>ability Education <strong>in</strong> the Faculty <strong>of</strong> Environmental Studies, at York University, Toronto, Ontario. Her areas <strong>of</strong> research and teach<strong>in</strong>g focus on critical animal studies, environmental education and philosophy, natural history, susta<strong>in</strong>able agriculture, and human ecology. Her work exam<strong>in</strong>es who gets to count as a subject <strong>in</strong> worldly relations and how question<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>ter-subjectivity can rework the material relations <strong>of</strong> production and environmental and social justice. Her preced<strong>in</strong>g SSHRC funded research explored the phenomena <strong>of</strong> animal culture, consciousness and communication <strong>in</strong> whales and bats. Currently, she is work<strong>in</strong>g on human-animal relationships and conflicts <strong>in</strong> urban sett<strong>in</strong>gs, us<strong>in</strong>g a mix <strong>of</strong> biosemiotics and political ecology.
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