Animal Revolution

Animals are staging a revolution that we need to consider to our deep detriment. This book threads together news accounts and more to imagine a revolution stirring and asks how humans can be a part of it. Ron Broglio reveals how fur, claw, feather, and fin are jamming the gears of our social machine and exposing the environmental injustices and vulnerabilities in our systems.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2022
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Animals are staging a revolution, but they are not telling us. This book threads together news accounts and more in a powerful and timely work of creative, speculative nonfiction that imagines a revolution stirring and asks how humans can be a part of it. If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we should pay attention to how we bump up against animal worlds and how animals will push back.

Animal Revolution is a passionate, provocative, cogent call for us to do so. Ron Broglio reveals how fur, claw, feather, and fin are jamming the gears of our social machine. We can try to frame such disruptions as environmental intervention or through the lens of philosophy or biopolitics, but regardless, the animals persist beyond our comprehension in reminding us that we too are part of an animal world. Animals see our technologies and machines as invasive beings and, in a nonlinguistic but nonetheless intensive mode of communicating with us, resist our attempts to control them and diminish their habitats. In doing so, they expose the environmental injustices and vulnerabilities in our systems.

A witty, informative, and captivating work—at the juncture of posthumanism, animal studies, phenomenology, and environmental studies—Broglio reminds us of our inadequacy as humans, not our exceptionalism.

Weight: 186g
Dimension: 211 x 159 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781517912444