Autobiografie chobotnice

Do you know the vibrational poetry of spiders, the sacred architecture of wombats or the ephemeral aphorisms of octopuses? Welcome to the field of "therolinguistics," the essential scientific discipline of the third millennium that studies the stories written and told by animals. Here, Vinciane Despret blurs the boundaries between science and fiction, creating an unsettling stir: what if spiders really are begging us to stop the rumbling of our machines? What if the wombats' constructions testify to a friendly cosmology and their sense of coexistence? What if octopuses in metempsychosis are despairing because they can't reincarnate now because of overfishing and ocean pollution? 

Philosopher and psychologist Vinciane Despret teaches at the University of Liege and in her books she explores our relationship with animals. Her reflections, inspired by the ideas of Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, have influenced the foundations of the field of animal studies.

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