August 4, 2009
Informed by feminist investigations of embodiment and bodiliness, we ask: How do we understand our bodily relationship to other animals? How do we embody animals, and how do animals embody us? How are carnal modes of incorporation, intimacy, and inhabitation kinds of contacts forged between “HumAnimals”? If, as Donna Haraway writes, “animals are everywhere full partners in worlding, in becoming with,” then how do embodied encounters with animal matter necessarily constitute categories of “human” and “animal”? What is the meaning of meat, and the meat of meaning?And while you contemplate that meet "Meet Animal Meat" keynote speaker, Judith "Jack" Halberstam, Professor of English and Gender Studies at USC.
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You really need to read the program to get beyond parody:
http://www.genna.gender.uu.se/k7U2TMnaTK4%3d.linkx?type=file&id=185
Hey, chicks and animals, y'know? Jack probably just wanted to grow up to be that little girl in National Velvet.
Posted by: Rob De Witt at August 4, 2009 11:04 PM
Well I object to their automatically assuming that, since plants can't emote, they are less than equal partners in our worlding experience.
Posted by: barnabus at August 5, 2009 6:10 AM
Taken to the logical conclusion, here at last we find a solution to the problem of radical feminism. It clearly behooves all true feminists to become equal partners in the regenerative processes of molds and fungii.
My contribution will be the use of my shovel and some time helping dig. Then I'll have to go care for my family while the feminists GET IT ON with the micro-lifeforms.
I'll expect my grant funding from the university as soon as they hear about my ground-breaking work.
Posted by: AskMom at August 5, 2009 7:21 AM
The meaning of meat is grilled, medium well.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at August 5, 2009 10:41 AM
"What is the meaning of meat"
Dinner.
Next?
Posted by: Fat Man at August 5, 2009 11:25 AM