When Species Kiss
Some Recent Correspondence Between Animots
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8044529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynn Turner (Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-86 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanimalia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2151-8645 • E-ISSN: 2151-8645 |
| Publisher | Humanimalia, Utrecht University (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.52537/humanimalia.10093 |
| OpenAlex | W4248895813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper considers the figure of the interspecies kiss in works by Donna Haraway, Helene Cixous, and Carolee Schneemann in light of the impact on animal studies by Jacques Derrida. I elaborate key elements of Derrida’s increasingly glossed essay The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow) to show both their commonality with deconstruction more broadly and their conceptual importance in rethinking relations between humans and other animals in particular. These elements are not simply applied to Haraway, Cixous, and Schneemann but are interwoven with and developed by their works. I position the interspecies kiss, indeed the kiss in general, as performative. While performativity has become part of the lexicon of Visual Culture, often appearing simply in adjectival form, its more complex articulation in the work of Derrida is often overlooked. There the term, as part of his subtle displacement of signification, already impacts on what we thought was human property: rather than meaning residing in our organic, present possession, it becomes conditioned by a machinic, reactive repetition, the very quality that Descartes attempted to section off as the impoverished domain of the animal. Bringing organic and machinic into an enmeshed relation inevitably brings Haraway’s figure of the cyborg to mind, while the doing over being quality of the performative resonates with her emphasis on the relating of our encounters
Biology · Computer network · KISS (TNC · Performative utterance · Possession (linguistics · Zoology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Art, Technology, and Culture · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |