Concepts!
Descartes wrote this as evidence of his existence.
“Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial."
What is "Murders of the Rue Morgue"- Edgar Allen Poe?
This *cute* nonhuman character is a "robot Descartes" because they think, therefore they are.
Who is QT1?
The cutest nonhuman alive.
Who is Lucy?
Gilles Deleuze thinks that Bartleby's assertion "I would prefer not to," makes him someone to whom no social position, no possession, no particularities can be attributed. According to Deleuze this makes him a pure _____.
What is an outsider?
To Descartes, these are "natural automata."
What are animals?
“I do not believe in separation. We are not single. … (we are not single, we are one).”
What is The Waves- Virginia Woolf?
In czech, this word means "forced labor."
What is robota?
This enables us to indirectly feel what nonhumans live.
What is sympathetic imagination?
This sort of person, according to Gilles Deleuze, "returns from what he has seen and heard with bloodshot eyes and pierced eardrums.”
What is the writer?
This modernist technique is a literary way to describe the psychic process of the characters and their sensory impressions when these impressions happen.
What is stream of consciousness?
“We are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything that the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.”
What is "The Lives of Animals"- JM Coetzee?
The passivity of this person is the pure expression of their only desire: to stay where they are.
Who is Bartleby?
The attribution of human characteristics to a nonhuman person/thing/idea.
What is anthropomorphism?
This quote “I have been sleeping — and now — now — I am dead” in Poe's “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” signifies that M. Valdemar is experiencing his own ____.
What is death?
An unusual situation in which something happens that has nothing to do with ordinary situations.
What is a situation limit?
“Robots were created and destroyed their creator; robots were created and destroyed their creator; robots were created and destroyed their creator.”
What is "I,Robot"-Isaac Asminov?
The madness of this person from a popular film can be understood as a metaphor for the madness of the modern writer.
Who is Jack Torrance? (The Shining)
This detective's investigative method seems to say "we must refuse what does not exist and explain what really exists."
Who is Dupin?
The "situation limit" that Blanchot's character Thomas the Obscure experiences while swimming.
What is feeling there is no water at all?
A Greek word signifying the medicine and the poison.
What is pharmakon?
“Woe to us! Woe to man! He has come, the … the … what is his name? ... the … it is as if he were shouting his name in my ear, and I cannot hear it … the … yes … he is shouting it … I am listening … I cannot … say it again … the … Horla … I heard it … the Horla … it is he … the Horla … He has come!
What is "The Horla"- Guy de Maupassant?
Name a nonhuman character we've encountered that is considered a person through the author's use of anthropomorphism.
Who is QTI, Buck, Dr. Manhattan, Ava, Frankenstein's monster, etc.?
Peter Singer says this principle means that every animal has its own interests, and humans must take care of these interests
What is the principle of equal considerations of interests?
This literary movement embraces the idea and techniques of a "rupture with realism and the literary form of mimesis (interpretation)"; it often uses stream of consciousness, and does not want to imitate reality but rather create a new form of it.
What is modernism?