Menagerie, inconsolable. the giraffe weeping,
the horse drinking. [Machine by Peter Adolphsen] The horse opened its mouth and started talking there is a giraffe weeping and they have been here all along with you Menagerie and I understood everything, even though it wasn't speaking in English or any other human language. The language of the horse was one modulated sound with myriad meanings, associations, and overlapping images. In my cleansed and possibly unconscious state , I understood that it was telling me the story of the fate of its heart.
the horse at the lake, the fright, the run, the fall, cradled by roots of an upturned tree, the dirt loosening, then-
reminds me of Giraffe, of which I have only read the beginning because while lovely it feels so sad.
Machine. Giraffe. Electric Animal.
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2 Used & new from $70.00 wow. further reason to make point of keeping this. which I have already, because subject is my. disappearing ~ haunting of animals. in the aspect of disappearing, haunting.
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The Philosopher's Dog: Friendships with Animals by Raimond Gaita
Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship: Alice A. Kuzniar (earlier 'book' labeled post, never owned ~)
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also relevant may be: Heidegger on animals? can start with in Electric Animal.
Never. poems by Jorie Graham. red galley copy, square, much marked, rvwd for Ebbco. June 2002. 0060084715
Budget Travel through Space & Time. poems by Albert Goldbarth. galley, square. Graywolf Press. March 2005. 1555974163.
Love Songs of Arnhem Land. Ronald M Berndt. brown hardcover. rusty colored child(like) drawing. University of Chicago 1978. 0226043894. "Printed in Singapore"
..a contribution toward understanding Australian Aboriginal culture. erotic activity & belief. through medium of traditional songs. two song cycles in long-verse structure and a series in key-word stule. mytho-ritual themes. song-poetry hauntingly beautiful. haunting, familiar ~ unfamiliar, uncanny. in two main cycles, love linked directly with wider world of nature, with change and transformation and, by implication, fertility and procreation among all living things in that world.
Why Birds Sing. a journey into the mystery of bird song. by David Rothenberg. April 2005 Perseus 046507135x. Advance Uncorrected Proof. taken for the colors of the cover, the bird. perhaps also for the title, I like direct question. in intro: this book may present too many stories to offer a rigorous argument in philosophy, but remains close to field I first studied in sense that I may love the questions more than the answers. humble qstn Why do Birds Sing?..what sorts of thinking animals might do, to what extent we can communicate with them, which of our human abilities are best suited to enter the minds of other species? pleasure in song may be sth humans and birds can share. ..information does not really touch experience. birds certainly sing to find love and to find home, but these reasonable purposes do not deny joy.
rhythic click-like sounds of sperm whales. couldn't identify individual whales - too many overlapping rhythms. same problem Western listeners have when first hear large ensemble of tight West African drummers. how each player maintains individual rhythms amid great mix of patterns & beats. rel to above, aboriginal love song cycles?
The Design of Animal Communication. MIT 0262582236. ($42 but free copy ~ bcs cover peeling upper corner?) animal communication, ethology - ontogeny, mechanisms, function, evolution. repertoires of movements, species specificity in aminal signals. relation btw respiration and vocalization. The Dance Language of Honeybees. A Cellular Basis for Reading Minds from Faces and Actions. Genetics of Canary Song Learning.
Ants. E.O.Wilson. small for-the-general-reader version of large volume. seems I finally sold my copy?
..information, design, communication:
My Mother Was A Computer: digital subjects & literary texts. N. Katherine Hayles. University Of Chicago. 0226321487. Making: Language and Code. Storing: Print and Etext. Transmitting: Anaolog and Digital. hmm note parallels: language, print, analog : code, etext, digital .
The Laws of Cool: knowledge work and the culture of information. Alan Liu. also University of Chicago. 0226486990. thanked in acknowledgments of above. and Hayles has backcover blurb on this. I purchased their books around -I think at- same time. after hearing Liu present a paper, the only one I liked, tht smart, at Uof C Critical Inquiry conference re ~'transmission'. Automating. Information. Networking. | What's Cool? The Ethos of Information. Information is Style. The Feeling of Information.
-(re cool, also Commodify Your Dissent. Salvos from The Baffler.)
-has the subject been lost? loss ~ animals ~ haunting.
information, communication. with and without the animals. what is lost, what is disappeared, what is a phantom.
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