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This Extended Version of “Captivating Animals” with Thalia Field includes a discussion of Émile Zola and his attempt to recreate in fiction the scientific methodology of the Positivists and Claude Bernard; a reading of a medical journal article on the “insanity” of antivivisectionists; the tragedy of Charles Darwin’s “support” for vivisection.
Radio Version of Captivating Fictions
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Personhood (New Directions website)
“TURNS BEFORE THE BEFORE CURTAIN” by Thalia Field
A Conversation with Thalia Field, Author of Experimental Animals (January 15, 2017)
Thalia Field: The TNB Self-Interview (November 24, 2016)
Subjects of Captivity: Personhood Rights and Nonhuman Animals (Interchange with Jeff Sebo)
Ghosts, Dogs, and the Law: On Constructing Criminality and Negating Persons (Interchange with Colin Dayan)
GUEST
Thalia Field is 3rd generation from the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. She worked in theater as a writer, director, and producer before beginning to write books. Thalia has lived and worked in Paris, Berlin, and New York, as well as spending many summers in Juneau, Alaska where she helped to start a summer writing project. Thalia has been teaching fiction and multimedia and interdisciplinary creative/critical practice in the Literary Arts department at Brown University since 2000 where she is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing.
MUSIC
All of our music comes from Tim Berne, saxophonist, composer, and record label owner. We range across multiple albums and band lineups. The pieces come from Visitation Rites, Clause & Reflect, Diminutive Mysteries, Sacred Vowels, Sanctified Dreams, and Pre-Emptive Denial.
CREDITS
Producer & Host: Doug Storm
Executive Producer: Kade Young
