Christopher Peterson

According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure, to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying. The human has become, a conspicuous blind spot for many theorists seeking, to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient things. The displacement of the human is essential and urgent, yet given the humanist presumption that animals, lack a number of allegedly unique human...