The Autonomous Animal: Self-Governance and the Modern Subject
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Conceiving a Human Being 1. The Choice of Law: Autonomy between Norm and Creation 2. Mature Subjects: Physical Education and the Political Child 3. Intoxicated Citizens: America's Drug War and the Body Politic 4. Man Is a Political Animal: Self-Discipline and Its Beastly Other 5. Fit to Be Tied: Exercise Fads and Our Addiction to Autonomy Conclusion: Freedom and Self-Governance Notes Bibliography Index
Cosmopolitanism in a Carnivorous World
This essay contributes to an emerging “animal turn” in political theory and International Relations by exploring the possibilities of a cosmopolitanism that is more attentive to human consumption prac- tices involving bodily harm to and destruction of animals. Intertwining Jacques Derrida’s work on hospitality and animals, Judith Shklar’s insights on legalism and passive injustice, and studies on an- imal morality and emotion, I develop what I call “vegan cosmopolitanism.” Vegan cosmopolitanism is a reimagining of cosmopolitanism that is inclusive of nonhuman animals within the global communi- ty and considers the consumption of animal products as a matter of cosmopolitan justice. The ar- guments in this essay seek to reorient cosmopolitanism as a non-anthropocentric perspective on global justice in pursuit of realizing the always-present possibilities of new and inventive ways of encountering and attending to the vulnerabilities of “other” living beings.
A preliminary account of a new tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England
Abstract A new genus and species of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, England, is described and named. Distinctive characters of the premaxilla, its dentition, maxilla and nasals allow it to be diagnosed. The teeth in the premaxilla are D-shaped in cross-section and the nasals are fused. The hands are elongate and slender and the hindlimbs are gracile. Lack of element fusion elsewhere in the skeleton suggests that it is a subadult. Numerous character states are shared with tyrannosaurids but the new taxon appears to be excluded from the group that comprises aublysodontine and tyrannosaurine tyrannosaurids. We conclude that the taxon is a basal tyrannosauroid and as such it is one of the earliest and (with the exception of some teeth and an isolated ilium from Portugal) the first from Europe. Implications for tyrannosauroid biogeography and evolution are discussed. The animal was part of an unusual taphonomic assemblage in which some elements were partially articulated while others were scattered or broken.