[Linganth] in two weeks - -Webb Keane

[Ilana Gershon]

  Dear Colleagues,
Webb Keane will be talking about his new book, Animals, Robots, Gods  in
two weeks -- April 25th -- noon to 1 pm east coast time.

He has asked us to read ch. 4 and 5 -- these are short and very readable
chapters.  Please read as much as you can, but do feel free to join us even
if you haven't managed to read everything.

The reading can be found here:

Ch. 4
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BpHI9quc2hSvtKVaJW-uzbgFQYJcaDfM/view?usp=sharing

Ch. 5
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sw1w353xhzGQGmzg5SzkuYCSpUhHFZqz/view?usp=sharing

The meeting will be 12-1 pm  east coast time and can be
reached by clicking on this Zoom link:

  https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698 <https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698>

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

Ilana

Press blurb:  Moral relationships saturate the living world, and the line
between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. *Animals,
Robots, Gods* provides a bold new vision of ethics defined less by our
minds or society and more by our interactions with those around us, whether
they are the pets we keep, the gods we believe in, or the machines we endow
with life.

Drawing on pioneering fieldwork around the globe by some of today’s leading
researchers, acclaimed anthropologist Webb Keane invites us to expand our
moral imagination. We learn about the ethical dilemmas of South Asian
animal rights activists, Balinese cockfighters, cowboys, and Japanese robot
fanciers. We meet a hunter in the Yukon who explains to a bear why it must
come out of hibernation and generously give itself up to him, a cancer
sufferer in Thailand who sees his tumor as a reincarnated ox, and a
computer that persuades users to confess their anxieties as if they were
patients on a psychiatrist’s couch. Through these and other stories, Keane
challenges us to rethink our most basic ideas about who—and what—we deem
worthy of moral consideration.

Brimming with charm, wit, and insight, *Animals, Robots, Gods* reveals how
centuries of conversations between us and nonhumans inform our conceptions
of morality and will continue to guide us in the age of AI and beyond.
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