animalize

[...] Third, there are animalized humans, perhaps the most troubling category of all, since all manner of brutalizations carried out by cultural prescription can serve to animalize humans, as can reminders of human beings' mammalian, or even merely bodily, organic existence.

In an attempt to downplay the concierge's power, both the narrative voice of Paris au mois d'aout and the narrative agent of "Echec a la concierge" animalize her; and, curiously, both texts choose the anteater as the concierge's zoological counterpart.

And that as post-Darwinians it was up to us to anthropomorphize the world less and animalize, vegetablize, and mineralize ourselves more.

Shukin, extending Marx's vivid observation that fetishistic commodities appear to have a life of their own, seeks to 'animalize' commodities and render 'traces' animals leave upon 'carnal modes of production' (Shukin, 2009: 27).

How is it that by merely cloaking the human body in sheet metal, hiding the shapes and movements of this person's body and face, we can so readily animalize members of our own species?

"A key question now is to know how the human of the 21st century can reactivate his animality and animalize himself anew when all Western thought since the Greeks tells him that he is human precisely because of this rupture with animality," Lestel suggests, building on his critique of the very philosophical foundations of the ethological tradition.

Matthew Sefton said: "I saw them first at the City Hall in 1984 when they supported Kiss on the Animalize tour.

In literary contexts such as The Fox, it frequently functions as a mode of aggressive scapegoating through which the protagonists "animalize" one another as creatures whose lives are of no ethical or ontological consequence.

Both narrative and characters frequently animalize, infantilize, and insult Hareton in language consistent with that used to refer to idiots in contemporary popular and medico-legal discourse.

Given the already mentioned disposition to animalize of the ethnophaulism, this formula has certainly cognitive value as it opposes the civilized to the bestial.

Cervantes performs a similar literary maneuver when Berganza calls the black woman a dog in "El coloquio de los perros." The moment when one character calls another a dog makes the reader question the moral logic behind expressions that animalize humans and, indeed, the role that the animal has in how we as humans define ourselves as human.