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humanimalia-18809	Gundermann, Christian	Don't Let Them Eat Horse: Review of Kari Weil, Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France	2024	13	.pdf	application/pdf	4559	139	44	Whilst there is, once again, a lot of terrain covered in the course of this chapter, Weil ends with a discussion of the philos- opher of language Stanley Cavell and the poet and dog and horse trainer Vicki Hearne, both of whom theorize the question of train- ing not so much as a unilateral flow of influence and hypnotism as in Gustave LeBon’s fantasy of “educating the masses” following the model of horse training as a kind of programming of the mind, but rather as a mutual language game. Had she woven her discussion of Bonheur into the rich fabric of Baucher’s legacy, Weil could have augmented her analysis of equine agency in French culture by con- sidering the importance that Baucher holds today in horse training when understood as artistic dialogue with horses.5 Unlike in the dominant conception of dressage as an equine sport where the horse serves as a tool or instrument akin to a bicycle or a motor vehicle, mechanistically executing what the rider instructs him or her to do, in artistic (also sometimes called “academic”) dressage, 3 See Donna Landry, Noble Brutes: How Eastern Bloodstock Transformed English Culture (Baltimore, MD:	cache/humanimalia-18809.pdf	txt/humanimalia-18809.txt