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humanimalia-9957	Kolb, Justin	A Cat May Look upon Descartes: Review of Laurie Shannon, The Accommodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales	2014	7	.pdf	application/pdf	2052	99	62	Shannon argues that the early chapters of Genesis “do not distinguish man and animal for every purpose,” but rather unite them as creatures, “living artifacts of Creation in a shared status that is, at once, both contingent and stakeholding — the classic ambivalence inherent in the structure of the political subject as such” (40-41). Descartes, and his reduction of animals to mere bête-machines in The Discourse on Method, is Shannon’s great adversary, the devil in the garden, whose promises of human exceptionalism led to the fall of Zootopia, the cleaving of the mind from the body, and the negation of animal reason, emotion, and desire.	cache/humanimalia-9957.pdf	txt/humanimalia-9957.txt