Monthly Archives September 2007

New Animalism

I recently saw both of these videos and they’re just marvelous. If humans really are ”animals” who refuse to believe they’re ”animals.” (And I subscribe to this belief), then it’s actually comforting to see animals behaving with such civility and tenderness. Always we reduce the animal to danger and savagery, to walking around on all fours with noses in their own shit, scrapping to survive and not be killed (not dissimilar from much human behavior, eh?). But ”animals” are so much more complex. From these two clips it would appear that whatever wavelengths they’re on include