animal classification largely historical and annoying

Resources

Clustering of music genres https://everynoise.com/
equivalent for just electronic music genres https://music.ishkur.com/

human as animal

in philosophy and anthropology

the ‘primal’ humans
- a multitude of ways people engage with the concept of a primal self, theories/frameworks/approaches to exploring this in modern life/times/cultures/research
  - eg reptilian brain/limbic system
  - calisthenics,
  - infant reflexes,
  - nature/nurture debates,
  - pre-verbal and mentalese,
  - homosapien+
- fear, survival, trauma and psychology
primal vs animalistic
‘primal urges’ and ‘primal instincts’
- ![img](’../assets/primal instincts.jpg’)
‘savage’ and colonialism and the construction of whiteness de~colonialism, indigenous peoples’ rights, Whiteness
thinking on how our body map determines so much of how we relate to each other and the world (what it feels like to be a bat, nagel(?) )

in sex (content warning/fetish)

primal roleplay
- primal interpreted variously as both human and animal
specific animal roleplay
- only kinds practised/discussed widely enough to allow for gatherings/media/being at all researchable are ponyplay, puppyplay and kittenplay
- whilst some are more body focused (eg cow fetishes often related to udders and lactation, a trait easily transferred between cow and human species),
- some are more straightforward aesthetic and behavioural matches (eg commonly kittenplay appears more aesthetic/cuteness focused or adjacent to ‘brat’ identities)
- but many of these specific interests cover ways of relating, crossing over with other kink-associated relationship dynamics such as training/ownership/service aspects of ponyplay and puppyplay
- interesting how some people transfer these ways of relating with animals to alternative ways of relating with other humans

in body, media, performance

body maps in general are fascinating - annihilation film played with that in some fun ways - foetal development - amorphous globosus (content warning/gore)
experiments of people-as-animal like GoatMan, in performance art, traditions, rituals
wild sheep chase novel

human animal relations

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deep ecology

The Concept

A philosophy of ecocentrism in which every living thing has inherent value, and asserts that humans are part of nature rather than superior and separate from it. (1)

Notes

Critiqued as overly broad and vulnerable to being co-opted by eco-fascists (eg endorsing population reduction)

Resources

What Is Deep Ecology? Philosophy, Principles, and Criticism

Mentions

“If a psychological theory is not true ecologically, it is not true. That is, if it does not apply equally well to plants and chipmunks and bacteria, it isn’t foundationally true.” (Stephen Buhner) ➡
“By the late twentieth century in U.S. scientific culture, the boundary between human and animal is thoroughly breached […] “language, tool use, social behaviour, mental events - nothing really convincingly settles the separation of human and animal.” ➡
“connection across the discredited breach of nature and culture” ➡

species definitions are arbitrary

the whole taxonomy is fundamentally arbitrary, but still useful - based on handy indicators - common genetic material - common ancestry - common behaviour - common appearance - common features and forms - common environment?
a fun example of this is the Scrotifera, whose commonality lies in their scrotums
this view plants us more firmly into relation with the animals around us