Rafael Rachel Neis, Figures of Speech, pen and ink on paper, 11 in. x 17 in., 2020
Rafael Rachel Neis, Figures of Speech, pen and ink on paper, 11 in. x 17 in., 2020
“If we abide by these insights in our encounter with ancient sources, we find a (surprisingly?) queer world in which a human gives birth to a raven, a cow delivers a camel, mud generates mice, and fire begets the salamander.”
Read MoreJoann Sfar, The Rabbi’s Cat, New York : Pantheon Books, 2005), 11/3-4 (image used with kind permission of artist)
Joann Sfar, The Rabbi’s Cat, New York : Pantheon Books, 2005), 11/3-4 (image used with kind permission of artist)
R.R. Neis begins the AJR Animal Forum: To the extent that concerns about the human, species, animality, and reproduction criss-cross antiquity and the present, a species-informed approach to late antiquity not only allows us to hazard ways of thinking/being the non/human, it also can short-circuit rhetorical invocations of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” by falsifying cherished myths.
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