Table Of ContentFoucault and Animals
Human-Animal Studies
Series Editor
Kenneth Shapiro (Animals & Society Institute, USA)
Editorial Board
Ralph Acampora (Hofstra University, USA)
Hilda Kean (Ruskin College, Oxford, UK)
Randy Malamud (Georgia State University, USA)
Gail Melson (Purdue University, USA)
Leslie Irvine (University of Colorado, USA)
VOLUME 18
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Foucault and Animals
Edited by
Matthew Chrulew, Curtin University
Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel, The University of Sydney
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Title: Foucault and animals / edited by Matthew Chrulew, Curtin University,
Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel, The University of Sydney.
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Contents
Foreword vii
List of Contributors viii
Editors’ Introduction: Foucault and Animals 1
Matthew Chrulew and Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel
PART 1
Discourse and Madness
1 Terminal Truths: Foucault’s Animals and the Mask of the Beast 19
Joseph Pugliese
2 Chinese Dogs and French Scapegoats: An Essay in Zoonomastics 37
Claire Huot
3 Violence and Animality: An Investigation of Absolute Freedom in
Foucault’s History of Madness 59
Leonard Lawlor
4 The Order of Things: The Human Sciences are the Event of
Animality 87
Saïd Chebili
(Translated by Matthew Chrulew and Jeffrey Bussolini)
PART 2
Power and Discipline
5 “Taming the Wild Profusion of Existing Things”? A Study of Foucault,
Power, and Human/Animal Relationships 107
Clare Palmer
6 Dressage: Training the Equine Body 132
Natalie Corinne Hansen
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7 Foucault’s Menagerie: Cock Fighting, Bear Baiting, and the Genealogy
of Human-Animal Power 161
Alex Mackintosh
PART 3
Science and Biopolitics
8 The Birth of the Laboratory Animal: Biopolitics, Animal
Experimentation, and Animal Wellbeing 193
Robert G. W. Kirk
9 Animals as Biopolitical Subjects 222
Matthew Chrulew
10 Biopower, Heterogeneous Biosocial Collectivities and Domestic
Livestock Breeding 239
Lewis Holloway and Carol Morris
PART 4
Government and Ethics
11 Apum Ordines: Of Bees and Government 263
Craig McFarlane
12 Animal Friendship as a Way of Life: Sexuality, Petting and Interspecies
Companionship 286
Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel
13 Foucault and the Ethics of Eating 317
Chloë Taylor
Afterword 339
Paul Patton
Index 345
Foreword
This 18th volume in the Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series is a major
contribution to the search for and development of theoretical foundations for
the field. While one criticism of the field is the relative dearth of applied stud-
ies, particularly those that fail to give sufficient attention to the nonhuman
animal side of the human-animal relationship, another common criticism is
the quality of its theoretical discourse. This volume on the writings of Michel
Foucault offers a corrective to the occasional practice in the field of making
“superficial” reference (this volume, p. 4) to theory, such as an obligatory nod
to a theorist du jour in the form of relatively unexamined applications of his or
her major concepts.
Like Heidegger, Foucault is a theorist who rarely addressed the “animal
issue.” When he did, it was often to provide a foil for human-centered theoriz-
ing. Ironically, as is pointed out (this volume, p. 16), that anthropocentrism was
in the context of a project the thrust of which was to de-center human being.
Yet, clearly, the seminal thought of Foucault is providing a theoretical frame
for the examination of issues in the field such as agency, inter-sectionality,
language, and bio-power. “Expansion of [t]his limited ontology” (this volume,
p. 7) is timely as the field is pivoting to a “political turn” (Milligan, 2016). That
turn within the “animal turn” promises to deliver more rigorous theory, more
theoretically grounded applications and less human-centered studies that will
contribute to the betterment of both human and other animals.
Reference
Milligan, T. The Political Turn in Animal Rights. Politics and Animals, [S.l.], p. 6–15, oct.
2015. ISSN 2002–0295. Available at: <http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/pa/article/
view/13512>. Date accessed: 17 Apr. 2016.
Kenneth Shapiro, Book Series Editor
Animals and Society Institute
Washington Grove MD
List of Contributors
Jeffrey Bussolini
is Director of the Center for Feline Studies with Ananya Mukherjea. Associate
Professor at CUNY. With Matthew Chrulew and Brett Buchanan he edited/
translated three issues of Angelaki on Philosophical Ethology. Translated
Dominique Lestel’s book The Friends of My Friends for Columbia University
Press, is co-translating Vinciane Despret’s Naissance d’une théorie éthologique for
Univocal, and translates extensively for Roberto Marchesini. He wrote “Toward
Cat Phenomenology: A Search for Animal Being,” Found Object 8, Spring 2000,
and co-wrote “The Phenomenology of Animal Life,” Environmental Humanities
5, November 2014. Edited the issue of Foucault Studies (#10, November 2010)
on interrelationships between Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, and wrote
“What is a Dispositive?” and a research article on Agamben’s interpretation of
Foucault for that issue.
Saïd Chebili
psychiatrist, practices his profession at a hospital in the Paris region. He also
has a doctorate in Philosophy from the Sorbonne, Université Paris 1. His dis-
sertation bore on the philosophical critiques of psychology. In parallel with his
activities as psychiatrist, he is associate researcher with the CAFHES (Center
of Archives in Philosophy, History and Scientific Editions). He has published
a number of works in French: Figures de l’animalité dans l’oeuvre de Michel
Foucault (Figures of Animality in the Work of Michel Foucault) (1999), La tâche
civilisatrice de la psychanalyse selon Freud (The Civilizing Task of Psychoanalysis
According to Freud) (2002), Foucault et la psychologie (Foucault and Psychology)
(2005), Une histoire des critiques philosophiques de la psychologie (A History of
the Philosophical Critiques of Psychology) (2008), and Malaise dans la psychiat-
rie (Malaise in Psychiatry) (2012). Currently, he is interested in the philosophi-
cal critiques of psychiatry.
Matthew Chrulew
is a research fellow in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, and
leader of the Posthumanism-Animality-Technology research program in the
Centre for Culture and Technology, at Curtin University in Perth, Western
Australia. His essays have appeared in Angelaki, SubStance, New Formations,
Foucault Studies, Humanimalia and The Bible and Critical Theory. He is a
List Of Contributors ix
founding associate editor of Environmental Humanities. With Chris Danta he
edited issue 43.2 of SubStance on Jacques Derrida’s The Beast & the Sovereign
lectures, and with Jeffrey Bussolini and Brett Buchanan he edited three issues
of Angelaki on the philosophical ethology of Dominique Lestel, Vinciane
Despret and Roberto Marchesini. He co-edited the books Animals in the
Anthropocene: Critical Perspectives on Non-Human Futures (Sydney UP, 2015)
with Madeleine Boyd, Chris Degeling, Agata Mrva-Montoya, Fiona Probyn-
Rapsey, Nikki Savvides and Dinesh Wadiwel, and Extinction Studies: Stories of
Time, Death, and Generations (Columbia UP, forthcoming) with Deborah Bird
Rose and Thom van Dooren.
Natalie Corinne Hansen
completed her PhD in Literature and Feminist Studies at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. Her work examines representations of human-horse
relationships in imaginative fiction, popular media, and training narra-
tives. Recent work appears in the collections Animals, Sports, and Society
and Becoming Human: From Animality to Transhumanism. Hansen currently
teaches literature and composition at Santa Monica College in the Los Angeles
area. Having left active training and competition in various equestrian disci-
plines a decade ago, Hansen currently practices holistic healing for horses and
promotes equine welfare among horseowners and riders.
Lewis Holloway
is Reader in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, Environment
and Earth Sciences at the University of Hull, UK. He has conducted research
projects in a number of agricultural contexts involving human-nonhuman
animal relationships, including those on very small ‘hobby’ farms as well as
those involving technologically-mediated relationships in commercial, large-
scale beef cattle, sheep and dairy farming. With other authors, including Carol
Morris and Christopher Bear, he has explored the application of Foucault’s
writings on ‘biopower’ to livestock farming, concentrating particularly on the
deployment of genetic techniques in livestock breeding and on the develop-
ment of robotic and information technologies in agriculture.
Claire Huot
is Associate Professor of Chinese studies at the University of Calgary. She
teaches art, civilization, film and literature. Her present research is on dogs
and Chinese culture. She has written books on contemporary Chinese
