Kári Driscoll
@kdriscoll.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. Comp. Lit. Utrecht University | Editor-in-Chief, Humanimalia | zoopoetics, reading zoos, more-than-human communities | he / him
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Adorno & Horkheimer get a lot of shit for supposedly identifying liberals & fascists in their 30s/40s work, but where they really start is: of course there’s a difference, but don’t you think it’s strange that so often right when the difference should matter—it doesn’t at all?
September 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Adorno & Horkheimer get a lot of shit for supposedly identifying liberals & fascists in their 30s/40s work, but where they really start is: of course there’s a difference, but don’t you think it’s strange that so often right when the difference should matter—it doesn’t at all?
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Happy to get to join this program on Audre Lorde’s literary & political legacy with Mariken Heitman, @sylvanasimons.bsky.social & @lazeefuik.bsky.social .
As Lorde said, “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be.” 🍉
As Lorde said, “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be.” 🍉
Een nieuwe spelling van onze namen – over 'Zami' van Audre Lorde
Een nieuwe spelling van onze namen – over 'Zami' van Audre Lorde • ILFU
Op woensdag 1 oktober brengen we in Bibliotheek Neude een ode aan Audre Lorde (1934-1992), de invloedrijke Afro-Amerikaanse dichter, essayist en activist. Samen met onder anderen Mia You, Sylvana Simons...
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August 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Happy to get to join this program on Audre Lorde’s literary & political legacy with Mariken Heitman, @sylvanasimons.bsky.social & @lazeefuik.bsky.social .
As Lorde said, “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be.” 🍉
As Lorde said, “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be.” 🍉
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
🐋 1 month left! CFP for #EASLCE2026 – Join the Orca Uprising! (14–17 April, Utrecht University).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 Sept 2025.
Keynotes: Greg Garrard, Kate Rigby, Eva Meijer.
Full details here: easlce2026.sites.uu.nl
@easlce.bsky.social
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
Deadline for abstracts: 15 Sept 2025.
Keynotes: Greg Garrard, Kate Rigby, Eva Meijer.
Full details here: easlce2026.sites.uu.nl
@easlce.bsky.social
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🐋 1 month left! CFP for #EASLCE2026 – Join the Orca Uprising! (14–17 April, Utrecht University).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 Sept 2025.
Keynotes: Greg Garrard, Kate Rigby, Eva Meijer.
Full details here: easlce2026.sites.uu.nl
@easlce.bsky.social
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
Deadline for abstracts: 15 Sept 2025.
Keynotes: Greg Garrard, Kate Rigby, Eva Meijer.
Full details here: easlce2026.sites.uu.nl
@easlce.bsky.social
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
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Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2!
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
July 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2!
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
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The 11th Biennial EASLCE (@easlce.bsky.social) conference, entitled “‘Join the #OrcaUprising!’: Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice”, will be held at Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) in April 2026.
Visit easlce2026.sites.uu.nl for further details.
Visit easlce2026.sites.uu.nl for further details.
May 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The 11th Biennial EASLCE (@easlce.bsky.social) conference, entitled “‘Join the #OrcaUprising!’: Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice”, will be held at Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) in April 2026.
Visit easlce2026.sites.uu.nl for further details.
Visit easlce2026.sites.uu.nl for further details.
Meanwhile, I’m off to Stockholm to be the opponent at a PhD defence. The thesis, on Creaturely Metaphors in modernist literature, is brilliant, so my opposition will be quite amicable, luckily.
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PhD defence in Literature: Maria Trejling - Stockholm University
Research at Stockholm University.
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March 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Meanwhile, I’m off to Stockholm to be the opponent at a PhD defence. The thesis, on Creaturely Metaphors in modernist literature, is brilliant, so my opposition will be quite amicable, luckily.
www.su.se/english/rese...
www.su.se/english/rese...
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I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
February 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
Currently reading this as well and finding it both reassuring and depressingly relevant
This beacon of a book by @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social has been a real solace in the madness of the past few weeks. Strong recommend if hope or the sense things can be otherwise is eluding you.
February 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Currently reading this as well and finding it both reassuring and depressingly relevant
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Clown country run by clowns.
January 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Clown country run by clowns.
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“ Steve Bannon who may turn out the most prescient philosopher of our era said you don’t have to prove or disprove anything, you just need to drown the zone in shit. “
Sad and dangerous.
Sad and dangerous.
January 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
“ Steve Bannon who may turn out the most prescient philosopher of our era said you don’t have to prove or disprove anything, you just need to drown the zone in shit. “
Sad and dangerous.
Sad and dangerous.
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Can we just all bid a collective Fuck You to Zuckerberg and all things META?
Is that aggressive enough?
Is that aggressive enough?
(Bloomberg) -- Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of "culturally neutered" companies that have sought to distance themselves from "masculine energy," adding that it's good if a culture "celebrates the aggression a bit more."
@bloomberg.com $META
@bloomberg.com $META
January 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Can we just all bid a collective Fuck You to Zuckerberg and all things META?
Is that aggressive enough?
Is that aggressive enough?
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Global Western colonialism is so infused in media that this DealBook article frames Greenland as a “deal” to “approach.” Capitalism involves assessing and quantifying land while removing the people- Inuit are mentioned nowhere in these media articles. 1/
January 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Global Western colonialism is so infused in media that this DealBook article frames Greenland as a “deal” to “approach.” Capitalism involves assessing and quantifying land while removing the people- Inuit are mentioned nowhere in these media articles. 1/
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Issue 15.1 is out now!
Featuring 🐌 snails on Mt Fuji,🐂 mithuns in the eastern Himalayas, 🐈⬛ cats in multispecies communities, 🦮 sniffer dogs at airport security, 🐜 ants in Mexico, and 🐳 orcas in the Strait of Gibraltar.
The issue is 🔓 open access, available here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Featuring 🐌 snails on Mt Fuji,🐂 mithuns in the eastern Himalayas, 🐈⬛ cats in multispecies communities, 🦮 sniffer dogs at airport security, 🐜 ants in Mexico, and 🐳 orcas in the Strait of Gibraltar.
The issue is 🔓 open access, available here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Vol. 15 No. 1 (2024)
| Humanimalia
Humanimalia
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December 24, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Issue 15.1 is out now!
Featuring 🐌 snails on Mt Fuji,🐂 mithuns in the eastern Himalayas, 🐈⬛ cats in multispecies communities, 🦮 sniffer dogs at airport security, 🐜 ants in Mexico, and 🐳 orcas in the Strait of Gibraltar.
The issue is 🔓 open access, available here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Featuring 🐌 snails on Mt Fuji,🐂 mithuns in the eastern Himalayas, 🐈⬛ cats in multispecies communities, 🦮 sniffer dogs at airport security, 🐜 ants in Mexico, and 🐳 orcas in the Strait of Gibraltar.
The issue is 🔓 open access, available here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
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In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
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December 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM
In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is being given today for work with the Japanese atom bomb survivors (Hibakusha) so @finnarne.me & @melinabuns.bsky.social wrote about the trees that also survived and will continue to bear witness to the atrocities even after the humans have passed away.
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
December 10, 2024 at 6:43 AM
The Nobel Peace Prize is being given today for work with the Japanese atom bomb survivors (Hibakusha) so @finnarne.me & @melinabuns.bsky.social wrote about the trees that also survived and will continue to bear witness to the atrocities even after the humans have passed away.
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
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Humanimalia 15.1 coming soon!
December 2, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Humanimalia 15.1 coming soon!
This was a new one for me: a predatory journal stipulating that submitted articles can only be 15% plagiarised and have to be within the scope of the journal! Whatever will they think of next?
November 28, 2024 at 4:05 PM
This was a new one for me: a predatory journal stipulating that submitted articles can only be 15% plagiarised and have to be within the scope of the journal! Whatever will they think of next?
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Holding a grudge – is it a petty character flaw or a desire for justice in an unjust world? | First Dog on the Moon
Holding a grudge – is it a petty character flaw or a desire for justice in an unjust world? | First Dog on the Moon
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November 22, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Holding a grudge – is it a petty character flaw or a desire for justice in an unjust world? | First Dog on the Moon
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De-mining rats. Stray dogs. Lal Kandhari cows. Marxist cats. And fishy resistance. My review of Animal Studies in 2023 is available here. DM me for the PDF.
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Animal Studies
Abstract. This review essay explores some key contributions to animal studies in 2023. In Section 1, Humanitarianism Beyond Humanism, I consider how Benjam
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November 13, 2024 at 4:08 PM
De-mining rats. Stray dogs. Lal Kandhari cows. Marxist cats. And fishy resistance. My review of Animal Studies in 2023 is available here. DM me for the PDF.
doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...
doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...
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Trans, Utrecht, November 2024.
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands
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Die Ästhetik des Widerstands
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November 4, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Trans, Utrecht, November 2024.
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands
Photo credit: Kári Driscoll
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands
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This week I received advance copies of my translation of Teresa Präauer's Becoming Animal, published by Seagull Books. It was both a pleasure and a challenge to translate this kaleidoscopic exploration of the boundary between the written word and the living world
www.seagullbooks.org/becoming-ani...
www.seagullbooks.org/becoming-ani...
October 24, 2024 at 2:54 PM
This week I received advance copies of my translation of Teresa Präauer's Becoming Animal, published by Seagull Books. It was both a pleasure and a challenge to translate this kaleidoscopic exploration of the boundary between the written word and the living world
www.seagullbooks.org/becoming-ani...
www.seagullbooks.org/becoming-ani...
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"Our Arabic program is half a millennium old but couldn't withstand the corporatization of the contemporary university because it isn't nuclear engineering"
October 19, 2024 at 4:55 PM
"Our Arabic program is half a millennium old but couldn't withstand the corporatization of the contemporary university because it isn't nuclear engineering"
Looking forward to participating in the annual MESH symposium in Cologne next week, on the topic of “Multispecies Conviviality”. Naturally, given the topic, I will be talking about the War against Animals, nonhuman resistance, and interspecies solidarity.
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MESH Symposium 2024
mesh.uni-koeln.de
October 12, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Looking forward to participating in the annual MESH symposium in Cologne next week, on the topic of “Multispecies Conviviality”. Naturally, given the topic, I will be talking about the War against Animals, nonhuman resistance, and interspecies solidarity.
mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...