How do we relate to animals? Treating them with respect and granting them legal rights just isn't enough. The chapters in this book propose more radical approaches- starting with the rejection of the whole we vs. them framework. The Animal Catalyst is an urgent and necessary book, because it tells us that ... Read morewe cannot love and care for others without questioning and undoing ourselves.
Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University, USA
The so called Animal Turn in the arts and humanities is neither the 'next big thing' nor a flash in the pan: it is here to stay with us and its confluences with posthuman, transhuman, and nonhuman theory will reshape these fields permanently. MacCormack has collected a brilliant selection of essays at the exact point of this conjunction, with original contributions in animal studies, philosophy, film and media theory, cultural studies and queer theory. As MacCormack says, though, The Animal Catalyst belongs to no one discourse, creating a new standard and class of ahuman theory that is all its own.
John Mullarkey, Professor of Film and TV, Kingston University, London
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