TY - JOUR AU - Snyder, Emily PY - 2013/09/12 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Ugly Animal: Aesthetics, Power, and Animal-Human Relationality JF - Humanimalia JA - humanimalia VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.52537/humanimalia.9970 UR - https://humanimalia.org/article/view/9970 SP - 136-168 AB - <p>In this paper, I consider the importance of examining negative aesthetics for thinking about animal-human relations. Specifically, I concentrate on the ugly animal and ask: how might a focus on ugliness, disgust, and abjection help us to further understand animal-human relations in both theory and practice? I draw on the pigeon and pigeon feces to consider possible contributions from Donna Haraway and Michel Serres, for addressing my question. Ultimately I abandon Haraway’s respectful relationality, as well as Serres’s parasitic relationality, to consider what a politics of disgust might offer instead for a political and ethical approach to animal-human relations that is more practically attentive to discomfort, power, and conflict.</p> ER -