Unhuman Culture Daniel Cottom "Uhuman Culture takes the categories of the person and the Other, the human and culture, and questions whether their opposition is as fixed as we would think. In particular, Cottom is interested in how language and art animate the human. Our tendency to think and write passionately about the art we make leads him to criticize our 'perennial and perhaps inescapable tendency to underestimate the art in humanity and overestimate the humanity of art.' At issue in this clever chiasmus is the lack of difference separating the human from the...
Unhuman Culture Daniel Cottom "Uhuman Culture takes the categories of the person and the Other, the human and culture, and questions whether th...