Performing with Adventurers Wanted for their 2019 Fringe show, Banishment
Old Women and Cats: Attunement to Shared Worlds
22 Friday Dec 2017
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Cat Lady, Cats, Companion Species, Donna Haraway, Doris Lessing, J.M. Coetzee, Jane Campbell, Literature and Philosophy, Timothy Morton
In the third of my three posts about the figure of the cat lady, I examine the ways in which the old woman in Jane Campbell’s story ‘Cat Brushing’ is attuned to the complexities of the cat’s world, and how the inter-species companionship between the old woman and the cat represents a sophisticated form of ecological awareness.
Old Women and Cats: Exclusion as a Space for Companionship
08 Friday Dec 2017
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Cat Lady, Cats, Companion Species, Donna Haraway, Doris Lessing, Giorgio Agamben, J.M. Coetzee, Jane Campbell, Literature and Philosophy, Timothy Morton
What does it mean to own a cat? This is the first in a series three posts in which I examine the figure of the cat lady and examine the forms of inter-species companionship that it represents, with particular emphasis of one of three short stories. In this post, I read Doris Lessing’s story ‘And Old Woman and Her Cat’ and examine how the inter-species companionship at the site of marginalisation subverts the anthropocentric regime of biopower in Western society.
Domesticating Dogs and the Ethics of Companionship
03 Friday Nov 2017
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Anna E. Charlton, Companion Species, Dogs, Donna Haraway, Gary L. Francione, Pets, Sarah Marshall-Pescini
Some reflections on the ethics of domesticating and caring for dogs.
The Ethics of Smell: Corporeal Porosity and the Embodiment of Care
02 Sunday Jul 2017
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Donna Haraway, Embodiment, Environmental Humanities, Gail Weiss, Improbable Research, Intercorporeality, Phenomenology, Smell
How can thinking of bodies through smell reveal the complexities of the embodied relations between them? This is a meditation on how we interact with other bodies through their smell, and how smell reveals their inner workings in ways that sight or sound do not.