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Ethics Outside the Human: A Brief Introduction

Ethics Outside the Human: A Brief Introduction Ethics Outside the Human A Brief Introduction jordan lev greenwald "When I look at it just from a purely ethical standpoint . . . I think this is a frightening world." So states interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco in a Q&A regarding the preparation of her 2013 performance piece Observations of Predation in Humans: A Lecture by Dr. Zira, Animal Psychologist.1 It is a passing comment (Fusco is responding to an audience question on the pervasiveness of neoliberal forms of logic, calculation, and governance in everyday life) and yet one that speaks directly to the nature of the performance in question and the attitude toward the world it engenders. In Observations of Predation in Humans, Fusco takes on the persona of the chimpanzee animal psychologist Dr. Zira, a pivotal character in the Planet of the Apes films of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dr. Zira, so the backstory is presented to the audience (in a "Skype call" from none other than Donna Haraway), did not actually die as she appears to in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), but rather feigned her death and has remained in hiding since then, observing human behavior through http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences University of Nebraska Press

Ethics Outside the Human: A Brief Introduction

Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences , Volume 25 (1) – Dec 2, 2016
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Ethics Outside the Human A Brief Introduction jordan lev greenwald "When I look at it just from a purely ethical standpoint . . . I think this is a frightening world." So states interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco in a Q&A regarding the preparation of her 2013 performance piece Observations of Predation in Humans: A Lecture by Dr. Zira, Animal Psychologist.1 It is a passing comment (Fusco is responding to an audience question on the pervasiveness of neoliberal forms of logic, calculation, and governance in everyday life) and yet one that speaks directly to the nature of the performance in question and the attitude toward the world it engenders. In Observations of Predation in Humans, Fusco takes on the persona of the chimpanzee animal psychologist Dr. Zira, a pivotal character in the Planet of the Apes films of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dr. Zira, so the backstory is presented to the audience (in a "Skype call" from none other than Donna Haraway), did not actually die as she appears to in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), but rather feigned her death and has remained in hiding since then, observing human behavior through

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