Ways Out of the Anthropological Machine, or How and Why to Defamiliarize Ourselves

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ways Out of the Anthropological Machine, or How and Why to Defamiliarize Ourselves
Original language description
This introductory chapter dwells on Agamben's notion of the "anthropological machine"-the device by which man is produced against his allegedly animal nature-and addresses two issues that Agamben's analysis has left unexplored: namely, the consequences the anthropological machine implies for the life of animals and the strategies one needs to adopt in order to render the machine inoperative, for the sake of both human and non-human animals. It is argued that to dismantle this "othering machine" and to undo the traditional boundary between human and animal, one should embark on a difficult but rewarding journey of self-displacement and defamiliarization. Three anti-anthropocentric exercises are suggested. The first consists in placing humans at the margins of the history (both in the sense of human history and in the sense of the narrative plot), while bringing other co-protagonists into the foreground. The second shifts the focus onto the human-animal relationship, while exploring the devices that allow, mediate, or prevent a genuine encounter. Finally, the third addresses the possibility of grasping and portraying animals' lives, minds, and language, while bearing in mind that this "translation process" is necessarily open-ended and fraught with traps.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Outside the Anthropological Machine: Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies
ISBN
978-0-367-50444-1
Number of pages of the result
23
Pages from-to
1-23
Number of pages of the book
292
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London-New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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