David Lulka
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 161087 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Lulka |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Lulka |
| FIRMA | LULKA D |
| AFILIACIONES | San Diego State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 134 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Animals, daguerreotypes and movement
Animals are not well represented in daguerreotypes, yet their visage within them is quite informative. The inclusion of animals was inhibited by their penchant for movement, which confounded the capabilities of the daguerreotype. Nonetheless, people sought to incorporate animals into portraits, the result often being a smeared image of the being. Rather than viewing this outcome as a failure, the smeared images should be viewed as theoretically a…
The Posthuman City
Nonhuman animals are part of the dynamism that typifies cities, yet prior research has obscured this condition by focusing upon a limited subset of animals and the privatized spaces that contain them. Consequently, previous research provides little guidance in developing a post-human conception of cities. This paper redresses this deficiency by redefining conceptions of “the public” and analyzing data from San Diego's Dead Animal Removal Program …
The Lawn; Or on Becoming a Killer
Immanence has resurfaced as a topic of theoretical interest, as it is perceived to bear upon many current developments in society and nature. In this paper, I delve further into this concept by examining my personal relations with a lawn. In this telling, lawns are typified by immanence, whether that refers to the growth of vegetation, the prospering of animal life within, or the emerging human capacity to control nonhuman immanences. In particul…
California's Proposition 2
To Turn

Consuming Timothy Treadwell
This chapter revisits Herzog's Grizzly Man in order to reassess and redefine notions of animal agency. It presents a brief examination of Timothy Treadwell's and Herzog's respective conceptions of grizzlies. While Treadwell is driven by multiple forces to diminish the space that separates him from grizzlies, Herzog seeks to re-establish a clear division between the species and enlarge the gulf between humans and other animals. Finding each of the…
The residual humanism of hybridity
The concept of hybridity has become an influential theoretical tool for examining and reconsidering relations between society and nature. Although benefits have accrued from this school of thought, this paper contends the deployment of hybridity within the geographic discipline falls short of its reconstitutional claims. These shortcomings are a consequence of the original sources used to develop the language and logic of hybridity. Although the …
Form and Formlessness
This paper merges together the growing theoretical interest in nonhumans with longstanding philosophical questions about form in order to assess the political and ethical ramifications of contemporary human engagements with domestic dogs. In particular, this paper explores the organ-izational and legal activities of the American Kennel Club (AKC) to highlight the importance of form in their political engagements and to illustrate some of the unin…
The Ethics of Extension
In contrast to rigid conceptions of nonhuman animals, several philosophers have put forth ideas that suggest a more flexible and extended vision of other animals. In articulating the condition of humans in the world, philosophers have referenced ideas that necessarily bring other beings in common with humanity. Significantly, conceptions of movement and biological transformation have played a central role in these ruminations, thereby suggesting …
The paradoxical nature of growth in the US bison industry
In the bison industry, a paradox has emerged in which the ideal of bison restoration has become increasingly disconnected from the management practices that orient and coordinate the lives of bison on private ranches. Although the industry has spurred the growth and reintroduction of the species, it has not been able to restore it in a theoretically significant way that approximates historic bison populations. This article examines the economic, …
Non-linear diffusion
Embodying Anthropomorphism
The status of anthropomorphism has changed in recent decades, allowing for in-depth consideration of its meaning and salience. Advocates of anthropomorphism have put forth a series of scientific and theoretical arguments to establish the concept's legitimacy. Nonetheless, while many advocates of anthropomorphism criticize the scientific worldview that objectifies nonhumans, their arguments still retain a cognitive perspective that implicitly reaf…
Social splinters and cross-cultural leanings
Grass or Grain? Assessing the Nature of the US Bison Industry
By looking at recent developments in the US bison industry this article illustrates some of the inadequacies of the productive/post-productive divide in contemporary agriculture. To this end, conceptions of quality are examined to indicate the factors that move the industry towards or away from conventional modes of production. These perspectives have become manifest in attitudes regarding the use of grain in the production process. Increasingly,…
Stabilizing the Herd
Supported by scientific modes of representation, wildlife-management agencies commonly adopt policies that subordinate nonhuman species and resubstantiate human-nonhuman hierarchies. In this paper I illustrate the inadequacy of current management policies by drawing upon Deleuzian notions of immanence and movement and applying them to the specific case of Yellowstone bison. Modes of representation that define nonhuman ontology in terms of genetic…
The residual humanism of hybridity
The concept of hybridity has become an influential theoretical tool for examining and reconsidering relations between society and nature. Although benefits have accrued from this school of thought, this paper contends the deployment of hybridity within the geographic discipline falls short of its reconstitutional claims. These shortcomings are a consequence of the original sources used to develop the language and logic of hybridity. Although the …
Stabilizing the Herd
Supported by scientific modes of representation, wildlife-management agencies commonly adopt policies that subordinate nonhuman species and resubstantiate human-nonhuman hierarchies. In this paper I illustrate the inadequacy of current management policies by drawing upon Deleuzian notions of immanence and movement and applying them to the specific case of Yellowstone bison. Modes of representation that define nonhuman ontology in terms of genetic…
Form and Formlessness
This paper merges together the growing theoretical interest in nonhumans with longstanding philosophical questions about form in order to assess the political and ethical ramifications of contemporary human engagements with domestic dogs. In particular, this paper explores the organ-izational and legal activities of the American Kennel Club (AKC) to highlight the importance of form in their political engagements and to illustrate some of the unin…
Embodying Anthropomorphism
The status of anthropomorphism has changed in recent decades, allowing for in-depth consideration of its meaning and salience. Advocates of anthropomorphism have put forth a series of scientific and theoretical arguments to establish the concept's legitimacy. Nonetheless, while many advocates of anthropomorphism criticize the scientific worldview that objectifies nonhumans, their arguments still retain a cognitive perspective that implicitly reaf…
The Posthuman City
Nonhuman animals are part of the dynamism that typifies cities, yet prior research has obscured this condition by focusing upon a limited subset of animals and the privatized spaces that contain them. Consequently, previous research provides little guidance in developing a post-human conception of cities. This paper redresses this deficiency by redefining conceptions of “the public” and analyzing data from San Diego's Dead Animal Removal Program …
The Lawn; Or on Becoming a Killer
Immanence has resurfaced as a topic of theoretical interest, as it is perceived to bear upon many current developments in society and nature. In this paper, I delve further into this concept by examining my personal relations with a lawn. In this telling, lawns are typified by immanence, whether that refers to the growth of vegetation, the prospering of animal life within, or the emerging human capacity to control nonhuman immanences. In particul…
The paradoxical nature of growth in the US bison industry
In the bison industry, a paradox has emerged in which the ideal of bison restoration has become increasingly disconnected from the management practices that orient and coordinate the lives of bison on private ranches. Although the industry has spurred the growth and reintroduction of the species, it has not been able to restore it in a theoretically significant way that approximates historic bison populations. This article examines the economic, …
California's Proposition 2
To Turn

Non-linear diffusion
Stabilizing the Herd
Supported by scientific modes of representation, wildlife-management agencies commonly adopt policies that subordinate nonhuman species and resubstantiate human-nonhuman hierarchies. In this paper I illustrate the inadequacy of current management policies by drawing upon Deleuzian notions of immanence and movement and applying them to the specific case of Yellowstone bison. Modes of representation that define nonhuman ontology in terms of genetic…
Grass or Grain? Assessing the Nature of the US Bison Industry
By looking at recent developments in the US bison industry this article illustrates some of the inadequacies of the productive/post-productive divide in contemporary agriculture. To this end, conceptions of quality are examined to indicate the factors that move the industry towards or away from conventional modes of production. These perspectives have become manifest in attitudes regarding the use of grain in the production process. Increasingly,…
Social splinters and cross-cultural leanings
The Ethics of Extension
In contrast to rigid conceptions of nonhuman animals, several philosophers have put forth ideas that suggest a more flexible and extended vision of other animals. In articulating the condition of humans in the world, philosophers have referenced ideas that necessarily bring other beings in common with humanity. Significantly, conceptions of movement and biological transformation have played a central role in these ruminations, thereby suggesting …
The paradoxical nature of growth in the US bison industry
In the bison industry, a paradox has emerged in which the ideal of bison restoration has become increasingly disconnected from the management practices that orient and coordinate the lives of bison on private ranches. Although the industry has spurred the growth and reintroduction of the species, it has not been able to restore it in a theoretically significant way that approximates historic bison populations. This article examines the economic, …
Non-linear diffusion
Embodying Anthropomorphism
The status of anthropomorphism has changed in recent decades, allowing for in-depth consideration of its meaning and salience. Advocates of anthropomorphism have put forth a series of scientific and theoretical arguments to establish the concept's legitimacy. Nonetheless, while many advocates of anthropomorphism criticize the scientific worldview that objectifies nonhumans, their arguments still retain a cognitive perspective that implicitly reaf…
Consuming Timothy Treadwell
This chapter revisits Herzog's Grizzly Man in order to reassess and redefine notions of animal agency. It presents a brief examination of Timothy Treadwell's and Herzog's respective conceptions of grizzlies. While Treadwell is driven by multiple forces to diminish the space that separates him from grizzlies, Herzog seeks to re-establish a clear division between the species and enlarge the gulf between humans and other animals. Finding each of the…
The residual humanism of hybridity
The concept of hybridity has become an influential theoretical tool for examining and reconsidering relations between society and nature. Although benefits have accrued from this school of thought, this paper contends the deployment of hybridity within the geographic discipline falls short of its reconstitutional claims. These shortcomings are a consequence of the original sources used to develop the language and logic of hybridity. Although the …
Form and Formlessness
This paper merges together the growing theoretical interest in nonhumans with longstanding philosophical questions about form in order to assess the political and ethical ramifications of contemporary human engagements with domestic dogs. In particular, this paper explores the organ-izational and legal activities of the American Kennel Club (AKC) to highlight the importance of form in their political engagements and to illustrate some of the unin…
To Turn

California's Proposition 2
The Lawn; Or on Becoming a Killer
Immanence has resurfaced as a topic of theoretical interest, as it is perceived to bear upon many current developments in society and nature. In this paper, I delve further into this concept by examining my personal relations with a lawn. In this telling, lawns are typified by immanence, whether that refers to the growth of vegetation, the prospering of animal life within, or the emerging human capacity to control nonhuman immanences. In particul…
The Posthuman City
Nonhuman animals are part of the dynamism that typifies cities, yet prior research has obscured this condition by focusing upon a limited subset of animals and the privatized spaces that contain them. Consequently, previous research provides little guidance in developing a post-human conception of cities. This paper redresses this deficiency by redefining conceptions of “the public” and analyzing data from San Diego's Dead Animal Removal Program …
Animals, daguerreotypes and movement
Animals are not well represented in daguerreotypes, yet their visage within them is quite informative. The inclusion of animals was inhibited by their penchant for movement, which confounded the capabilities of the daguerreotype. Nonetheless, people sought to incorporate animals into portraits, the result often being a smeared image of the being. Rather than viewing this outcome as a failure, the smeared images should be viewed as theoretically a…
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