Humans, Animals, Ecologies
Matthew Sweet in conversation with Joanna Bourke about animals and post-human love, and Anna Tsing on her online project Feral Atlas - a new look at the interconnected world.
Joanna Bourke is an historian whose previous work has looked at fear, pain, sexual violence and dismemberment. Her new book is a history and examination of bestiality and zoophilia, tracing our changing understandings from Leviticus, to modern psychiatry, the animal rights movement, and beyond.
Anna Tsing's book The Mushroom at the End of the World was an examination of human interactions with fungi and their environments, and vice versa, in post-industrial landscapes. Her new online project Feral Atlas charts the complex and shifting relationships between humans, animals, plants, bacteria and other natural phenomena.
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love by Joanna Bourke is out now. Her lecture series Exploring the Body for Gresham College is available online https://www.gresham.ac.uk/series/exploring-the-body/
Anna Tsing's book The Mushroom at the End of the World is out now. You can find her online project at https://feralatlas.org/ It is made in conjunction with Stanford University curated and edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou
The Essay Series on Radio 3 this week looks at Animals.
Matthew Sweet hosts a Free Thinking discussion Fungi: An Alien Encounter /programmes/m000dr46
and looks at the ideas in Darwin's Descent of Man 1871 /programmes/m000s31z
Other discussions about animals include Should We Keep Pets? /programmes/b09hzj3y
Does My Pet Love Me? /programmes/m0004dr9
Animals: Watching Us Watching Them Watching Each Other /programmes/b04nqv0n
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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