Meera Atkinson
A daydream: philosophy comes for the geological anthropocene to shake it down with thought. Dr Alberts-Dezeeuw's Burmese cat discusses the nexus of the anthropocene and the patriarchy regularly with Derrida's cat on Skype, Derrida's cat having been adopted by Cixous after his death. The cats get along famously (they're best friends) and, encouraged by Cixous, Dr Alberts-Dezeeuw's Burmese cat is writing an ecriture feminine novel on the matter, meanwhile, mentored by Dr Alberts-Dezeeuw, the cats are working on a paper together about the human habit of anthropomorphising non-human animals as a symptom of the tragedy of the industrialised, corporatised, diminished human condition, which they plan to present at the next animal-human studies conference. Sometimes when Dr Alberts-Dezeeuw is thinking and taking notes in his armchair of an evening he and his Burmese cat-who has not been able to stretch to veganism, but who has, at least, vowed off 'recreational' hunting-consider time and ontology across the species. Though these conversations can last rather a long time Dr Alberts-Dezeeuw's Burmese cat always has the last word, concluding with a sigh and a philosophical flick of the tail: 'I think the Buddhists are right.'
A daydream: philosophy comes for the geological anthropocene to shake it down with thought. Dr Alberts-Dezeeuw's Burmese cat discusses the nexus of the anthropocene and the patriarchy regularly with Derrida's cat on Skype, Derrida's cat having been adopted by Cixous after his death. The cats get along famously (they're best friends) and, encouraged by Cixous, Dr Alberts-Dezeeuw's Burmese cat is writing an ecriture feminine novel on the matter, meanwhile, mentored by Dr Alberts-Dezeeuw, the cats are working on a paper together about the human habit of anthropomorphising non-human animals as a symptom of the tragedy of the industrialised, corporatised, diminished human condition, which they plan to present at the next animal-human studies conference. Sometimes when Dr Alberts-Dezeeuw is thinking and taking notes in his armchair of an evening he and his Burmese cat-who has not been able to stretch to veganism, but who has, at least, vowed off 'recreational' hunting-consider time and ontology across the species. Though these conversations can last rather a long time Dr Alberts-Dezeeuw's Burmese cat always has the last word, concluding with a sigh and a philosophical flick of the tail: 'I think the Buddhists are right.'
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