Abstract
What kind of animal politics, what kind of human politics, makes possible in India a negative anthropology of the animal that is accurate and ethical? The essay suggests that the correct approach should include an uncompromising and fully non-deterministic conception of law’s role in human relations with the animal. The essay is a [re]examination of law, violence, and animals/ animality. It draws upon sources from philosophy, history, law, culture, art, and society to shift the focus of the discussion away from ‘being’ and towards ‘becomings’, that is, towards potential possibilities and the ground for individuation. The musings on crows, on woundedness and the difficulty of reality, on violence and order in the postcolony, on the rule of law for nature in India, and on the problems and perils of utilitarian reason and a narrow protectionist approach for animals—suggest that while an uncompromising and completely non-deterministic aesthetic-politico-legal approach to violence and animals may be immensely challenging and incredibly difficult, it is this, this continuous and constant striving for the unsettled proper of man and animal, which ultimately allows us to practice our humanness without being ashamed of our continuity with all life.
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