Lily Does Derrida: A Dog’s Video Essay
A video essay made in collaboration with Lily Dog about companion animal relations, and interspecies communication.
- Release Date
- 2010-12-01
- Runtime
- 0h 29m
- Status
- Released
- Rating
- N/A
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Overview
How do we think about animals? Or rather – how do our animal companions think? How can we imagine the lives of our (non-human) animal friends? In this video essay, Lily Dog looks at Derrida’s writings and makes a case about how human and non-human understand each other – or not – based on her own life and adventures. Jacques Derrida was interested in animal consciousness and animal subjectivity, and he wrote about them both in The Animal That Therefore I Am – a text that Lily Dog quotes and speaks to in the video.