In this episode we discuss how rhetorical constructions of animality, and humanity are mobilized to serve specific power structures, including white supremacy and colonialism. Lauren Corman, David Rooney, and S. Marek Muller come on the show to talk about some of the complex networks of media influence and consumption that shape such thought. 

 Date Recorded: 19 February 2025

Mentioned: 

• “Pageantry of aggression”: QAnon, animality, and the violent pursuit of whiteness by Lauren Corman
• Long live the Liver King: right-wing carnivorism and the digital dissemination of primal rhetoric by Marek Muller, David Rooney, and Cecilia Cerja
• Interspecies Subjectivity with Lauren Corman on The Animal Turn
• Dangerous Crossings by Claire Jean Kim
• Decolonization is not a Metaphor by Eve tuck and K. Wayne Yang
• Nature's Wild by Andil Gosine
• Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol Adams
• Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire by Cara Dagg

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