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Sweet Spots thinks transversally across language and body, and between text and tissue. This assemblage of essays collectively proposes that words--that is, language that lands as written text--are more-than-human material. And, these materials, composed of forces and flows and tendencies, are capable of generating text-flesh that grows into a thinking in the making. The practice of acupuncture--and its relational thinking--often makes its presence felt to twirl the text-tissue of the bodying essays. Ficto-critical thinking is threaded throughout to activate concepts from process philosophy and use the work of other thinkers (William James, Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, Baruch Spinoza, and Virginia Woolf, to name a few) to forge imaginative connections. Entangled in the text-tissue are an assortment of entities, such as bickering body parts, quivering jellyfish, heart pacemaker cells, a narwhal tooth, Taoist parables, always with ubiquitous, stretchy connective tissue--from gooey interstitial fluid to thick planes of fascia--ever present to ensure that the essaying bodies become, what Alfred North Whitehead calls the one-which-includes-the-many-includes-the-one. The essaying bodies orient towards the sweetest sweet spot which is found, not in the center, but slightly askew, felt in the reverbing more-than that carries their potential. Crucially, this produces a shift in perspective away from self-enclosed bodies and experts toward a care for the connective tissue of relation.

Australian essays --- Relation (Philosophy)

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In this volume of studies, Animal: Moments of Affect, Moments of Pain, eight ethnologists apply a cultural perspective to people’s varied and complex relationships with other species. The contributions focus on wild animals, that is, those that are rarely found in the authors’ immediate vicinity. Based on ongoing research, the articles discuss themes such as conflicts and joys in the birdwatching world, charismatic animals in various exhibition contexts, children’s fears, morbid animal jokes and the ritual transformation of living animals into edible meat. The texts range from the tender, comical and cute to death and existential vulnerability. The book begins with the editors presenting an overview of how animals have been produced, noticed and studied in a mostly Nordic humanistic research context. Then the articles follow. Based on the idea of affective logic, Elin Lundquist follows the on-site monitoring of the bird hunting that takes place annually in Malta. Mattias Frihammar uses observations at a wilderness gallery with taxidermied animals to reflect on local identity. Lars Kaijser examines the ambivalent and conflicted portrayal of sharks in public aquariums. Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius writes about the death of extinct animals and how this is displayed in natural history museums. Susanne Nylund Skog examines birdwatchers’ stories as an expression of collecting and as a way of manifesting status. With lobster cartoons as a starting point, Simon Ekström shows how these depict both animal rights issues and human anxiety. Helena Hörnfeldt investigates animal fear and the diffuse boundary between humans and animals. Proceeding from different depictions of slaughter and the preparation of meat, Michelle Zethson problematizes how some animals are made edible. The volume ends with an epilogue by the editors commenting on the findings.

human-animal relation --- culture --- narrative

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United States --- Cuba --- Relations --- Relation

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Abraham, the father of all believers, plays host to three strangers, one of whom is God, and thus sets an example for others to follow. Jews, Christians, and Muslims often treat each other as strangers. Their Holy Books are not the cause of their conflicts and enmity but rather show the way to solve them. They tell a common story of the lifelong journey of the human being to the promised city, the promised land, and the promised world where justice and righteousness reign. -- Provided by publisher.

Qurʼan --- Relation to the Bible.

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Psychologues comparatistes et éthologistes de la cognition ont transformé nos conceptions sur la communication et la cognition de l’animal. Les fondements historiques de leurs recherches sont abordés, en soulignant l’importance de la révolution darwinienne et ses conséquences sur l’étude de la continuité évolutive entre l’animal et l’homme. Les apports méthodologiques du behaviorisme et de la psychologie cognitive sont présentés en relevant les difcultés inhérentes à l’étude d’animaux ne pouvant recevoir de consignes verbales. Les traitements cognitifs de leur environnement physique et ceux de leurs relations sociales sont exempliés avec des données issues essentiellement de l’étude des primates. L’identication de leurs états mentaux est aussi discutée en pointant les ressemblances et les différences entre la communication animale et le langage articulé humain. La question éthique liée aux droits des animaux et aux devoirs de l’homme à leurs égards est discutée. Les approches en cognition comparée s’avèrent indispensables pour saisir la nature de la cognition humaine, conçue comme le produit indissociable de l’histoire individuelle de chaque humain et de son passé phylogénétique.

Anthropology --- éthique --- langage --- éthologie --- psychologie --- relation