Love?
February, the month of love, arrives heavy with instruction. Emotions are heightened. Expectations are implicit. With all this vigilance, all this performance, all this care placed into actions and objects, we rarely stop to ask whether any of it resembles love at all.
A BAD WORLD FOR ANIMALS II
Most people consider themselves animal-lovers. When asked whether they prefer humans or animals, the overwhelming majority choose the latter, often insisting they have a “special connection” with them (though mysteriously, this connection applies mostly to the creatures society has pre-approved as cute or intelligent.)
A BAD WORLD FOR ANIMALS
How we erase nonhuman animal suffering through carefully sanitized vocabulary while simultaneously projecting minds, emotions, and agency onto machines that have none.