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Cover Reveal: WONDERLAND by Robert McKay
Cover Reveal: WONDERLAND by Robert McKay
YOU GUYS ARE IN FOR A TREAT! I’m extremely excited to share the cover for Wonderland with you! Wonderland is a retelling of the classic Alice in Wonderland story, with a scifi twist, just in time for the 150th anniversary of the original tale. This book is the first in the Intergalactic Fairy Tales series by Robert McKay. It will be available on August 20th, but you can win your copy early by…
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Dr. Robert McKay: The Idea of the Animal
On Wednesday 2nd May Dr Robert McKay (University of Sheffield), the second speaker in our series, came to give a talk on ‘The Idea of the Animal’. His main focus was J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Lives of Animals’ but he also spoke more broadly about the boundaries between animality and humanity.
He suggested that, like gender and race, the distinction between animality and humanity could be a cultural construct. Animal studies is anti-perfectionist, meaning no species of animal is better than another and species difference should not be perceived so hierarchically. The differences between humans and animals are crafted through imagery and representation, while the very fact that human medicines are tested on animal subjects, not vice versa, is evidence of the hierarchy.
In ‘The Lives of Animals’, the protagonist Elizabeth Costello vehemently tries to undermine any claim of human supremacy based on reason, which is the product of education not nature and is not necessarily self-evident. Dr McKay referred to Cora Diamond’s argument that ethics should not be based on a defining quality (such as reason), ethics arises only in the context of fellow feeling. To acknowledge the existence of fellow feeling but not understand why it is there is, for Diamond, part of being human. Dr McKay joined Diamond in saying it is wrong to find a singular criterion and use it to denote absolute difference. He also alluded to literature as a means of accommodating animal studies more effectively because it does not need facts, it need only be affective. The remainder of the talk was focused on Q&A, leaving us with the simple question: Are there really any morally relevant features? Or do we create them to legitimise our actions?
