Animality

“The cyborg appears in myth precisely where the boundary between human and animal is transgressed. Far from signalling a walling off of people from other living beings, cyborgs signal disturbingly and pleasurably tight coupling” (Haraway 1991, 152).

“As humans in the early twenty-first century are beginning, in some meaningful sense, to see other animals, indeed other beings, as kin to us, it becomes more and more plausible to understand that nonhuman animals would feel emotions similar to those of humans when their home environments are disturbed” (Albrecht 2019, 47).

“Humans have humanized themselves by rejecting their own animality. Dismantling the human/animal opposition is thus a crucial measure for re-imagining the concept of the human” (Haapoja, n.d.).