Rescue Me
On Dogs and Their Humans
Published on 16. August 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-5179-1460-8 (ISBN)
Description
What exactly is it we want from dogs today?
This is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animal-in something like the original interspecies space, as old or older than any other practice that might be called human. But it's also about the role of this relationship in the attrition of life-especially social life-in late capitalism. As we become more and more obsessed with imagining ourselves as benevolent rescuers of dogs, it is increasingly clear that it is dogs who are rescuing us. But from what? And toward what? Exploring adoption, work, food, and training, this book considers the social as fundamentally more-than-human and argues that the future belongs to dogs-and the humans they are pulling along.
This is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animal-in something like the original interspecies space, as old or older than any other practice that might be called human. But it's also about the role of this relationship in the attrition of life-especially social life-in late capitalism. As we become more and more obsessed with imagining ourselves as benevolent rescuers of dogs, it is increasingly clear that it is dogs who are rescuing us. But from what? And toward what? Exploring adoption, work, food, and training, this book considers the social as fundamentally more-than-human and argues that the future belongs to dogs-and the humans they are pulling along.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5179-1460-8 (9781517914608)
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Margret Grebowicz is an associate professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She is author of, most recently, Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. the End of the World and Whale Song.