scholarly journals Thinking with the Animal-Hacker

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Dairy Cow ◽  
Virtual Observatory ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Camera Lens ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Computational Ecology

In the depths of the Cumbria hills a dairy cow changes its route to stare deep into the camera lens of the ‘Environmental Virtual Observatory’ (EVO) (www.evo-uk.org). Downstream at 15 minute intervals organic matter is pushed through turbidity probes, sometimes causing the computation to glitch and upload its own movement into a data storage warehouse. In this muddy, messy situation of the EVO there is something lurking, something which might be described as the ‘Animal-Hacker’ the non-human animal, an entity that exploits the computational ecology, reconfigures it in an act of what Donna Haraway would describe as “worlding”.

Zooësis and ‘Becoming with’ in India: The ‘Figure’ of Elephant inSahyande Makan: The Elephant Project

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
AMEET PARAMESWARAN
Keyword(s):  
Physiological Condition ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The State ◽  
Theatrical Production ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Performance Challenges ◽  
Group Theatre

I analyseSahyande Makan: The Elephant Project(2008), a cross-cultural theatrical production in Malayalam and Japanese by the Kerala-based group Theatre Roots and Wings, as an instance of ‘zooësis’. The performance presents the state of an elephant in the space of a Kerala temple festival ritual,pooram. The elephant moves into a fantasy of the wild as it is under the physiological condition of musth. Approaching the question of the performing animal as intersectional, this performance challenges anthropocentrism and its assumed binary of human/animal, and draws a possible relation between domestic and wild, or the world of norms and freedom, both for elephants and for humans. I argue that by taking embodiment as the site of exploring discipline as well as imagining a freeing, and by positing an alternate way of ‘being worldly’ through affect and senses, the performance articulates what Donna Haraway has posited as the process of ‘becoming with’.

Humbling the human: Posthuman explorations in contemporary short fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elke D’hoker
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Species Extinction ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Louise Bennett ◽  
Being And Becoming

In a context of manmade global warming, ecological destruction and species extinction, posthumanist scholars have advocated moving beyond the anthropocentrism that determines western thinking in favour of an embedded and embodied interspecies relationality. If these remain fairly abstract notions in the work of critics such as Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, contemporary short fiction provides many interesting examples of these alternative forms of being and becoming. The short story seems especially suited to exploring this decentring of the human subject, given its own status as a liminal, ‘minor’ or ‘humble’ genre and its long tradition of exploring human–animal relations in animal stories. This article demonstrates how contemporary short stories by Lauren Groff, Claire-Louise Bennett, Sarah Hall, Sara Baume and Louise Ehrdrich stage a profoundly biocentric perspective by moving beyond animal stories’ traditional modes of the fabular and the figural towards a realistic depiction of our creaturely existence in experiences that may be at once empowering and terrifying.

Animating the Bible’s Animals

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Stone
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Differences ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Species Difference ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Biblical Literature ◽  
Companion Species ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Biblical Texts

This chapter discusses the potential relevance of interdisciplinary animal studies for biblical interpretation. The story of Jacob and his family in Genesis 25–32 is examined from the perspective of a “critical animal hermeneutics.” Three features of such a hermeneutics, characteristic of contemporary animal studies, are emphasized: (1) the constitutive importance of “companion species,” emphasized by Donna Haraway, including in Israel’s case goats and sheep; (2) the instability of the human/animal binary, emphasized by Jacques Derrida and other thinkers; and (3) ubiquitous associations between species difference and differences among humans, particularly, in the case of biblical literature, gender and ethnic differences. Each of these features is used to read the story of Jacob and several related biblical texts.

A new cactus variety for dairy cows in areas infested with Dactylopius opuntiae

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 479 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. F. Monteiro ◽  
M. A. Ferreira ◽  
A. S. C. Véras ◽  
S. I. Guido ◽  
M. P. Almeida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Dairy Cows ◽  
Milk Production ◽  
Milk Yield ◽  
Dairy Cow ◽  
Nutrient Digestibility ◽  
Apparent Digestibility ◽  
Microbial Protein ◽  
Neutral Detergent Fibre ◽  
Lactating Cows

Spineless cactus is an important part of dairy cow diet in the semiarid Brazilia. Severe infestation of cochineal (Dactylopius opuntiae Cockerell) destroyed a vast area of the most common species of cactus planted in the region; Opuntia ficus-indica Mill. resistant varieties with superior agronomic performance were recently selected, but they still need to be tested with dairy cows. We evaluated the use of a resistant variety, ‘Orelha de Elefante Mexicana’ (OEM, Opuntia spp.), in dairy cow diet. We tested its effect on intake, nutrient digestibility, microbial protein, blood parameters and performance of lactating cows. Ten cows with an average milk yield of 20 kg/day were assigned to an experiment using a double 5 × 5 Latin square design. The experimental diets consisted of five replacement levels of Nopalea cochenillifera Salm Dyck cv. (‘Miúda’) by ‘OEM’ (0%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%) on a dry-matter (DM) basis) and were formulated considering the ingredient composition. The roughage:concentrate ratio was 70:30 on a DM basis. The replacement of ‘Miúda’ by OEM did not change the intake (kg/day) of DM (18.0), organic matter (16.3), crude protein (CP, 2.8), total digestible nutrients (11.6), non-fibre carbohydrates (7.6) and neutral detergent fibre (5.7), or the apparent digestibility (g/kg) of DM (655), organic matter (694), CP (739) and non-fibre carbohydrates (950), whereas apparent digestibility of neutral detergent fibre increased linearly. Microbial protein production (1.5 g/day), microbial protein efficiency (129.2 g CP/kg total digestible nutrients), plasma urea nitrogen (21.4 mg/dL), nitrogen balance (123 g/day), feed efficiency (1.1), nitrogen efficiency (0.2), milk production (20.0 kg/day), fat-corrected milk production (20.1 kg/day) and milk composition were not influenced by the replacement. Therefore, we recommend the use of OEM in the diet of lactating cows with an average milk yield of 20 kg/day.

Trans* Plasticity and the Ontology of Race and Species

Social Text ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Kadji Amin
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Species Difference ◽  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
French Surgeon

During the 1920s, French surgeon Serge Voronoff became an international sensation for his technique of grafting chimpanzee testicular matter into human testicles. Félicien Champsaur’s 1929 popular speculative fiction novel, Nora, la guenon devenue femme (Nora, the Ape-Woman), imagines the possibilities of human-ape ontological and erotic proximity suggested by Voronoff’s practice of gland xenotransplantation, or transspecies transplantation. This article puts Nora and the early twentiethcentury science of ductless glands (ovaries, testicles, thyroid, thalamus, etc.) into conversation with trans* new materialist science studies around their shared investment in plasticity. In so doing, it contributes to the burgeoning inquiry into transsex, tranimal, and transspecies plasticity— which the author terms, jointly, trans* plasticity—while interrogating the affirmative and even utopian valance of such inquiry. Trans* plasticity describes the capacity of organic matter to transform itself in ways that transgress ontological divides among sex, race, and species. Building on Eva Hayward and Che Gossett’s claim that “the Human/Animal divide is a racial and colonial divide,” this article zeroes in on the historical process by which race and animality were produced in relation to each other. Ultimately, the author argues that gland xenotransplantation was a use of trans* plasticity that generated rather than troubled the ontobiological concepts of sexual, racial, and species difference.

scholarly journals Data Storage, Processing, and Visualization for the Australia Telescope Compact Array

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Murphy ◽  
Peter Lamb ◽  
Christopher Owen ◽  
Malte Marquarding
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Virtual Observatory ◽  
Remote Visualization ◽  
Visualization System ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Online Archive ◽  
Virtual Observatory Tools ◽  
Compact Array

AbstractWe present three Virtual Observatory tools developed at the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) for the storage, processing and visualization of Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) data. These are the Australia Telescope Online Archive, a prototype data-reduction pipeline, and the Remote Visualization System. These tools were developed in the context of the Virtual Observatory and were intended to be both useful for astronomers and technology demonstrators. We discuss the design and implementation of these tools, as well as issues that should be considered when developing similar systems for future telescopes.

scholarly journals Individual dairy cow management: achievements, obstacles and prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ephraim Maltz
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Dairy Cow ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Herd Size ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Dairy Production ◽  
Dairy Management ◽  
Capacity Data

AbstractThis review deals with the prospects and achievements of individual dairy cow management (IDCM) and the obstacles and difficulties encountered in attempts to successfully apply IDCM into routine dairy management. All aspects of dairy farm management, health, reproduction, nutrition and welfare are discussed in relation to IDCM. In addition, new IDCM R&D goals in these management fields are suggested, with practical steps to achieve them. The development of management technologies is spurred by the availability of off-the-shelf sensors and expanded recording capacity, data storage, and computing capabilities, as well as by demands for sustainable dairy production and improved animal wellbeing at a time of increasing herd size and milk production per cow. Management technologies are sought that would enable the full expression of genetic and physiological potential of each cow in the herd, to achieve the dairy operation's economic goals whilst optimizing the animal's wellbeing. Results and conclusions from the literature, as well as practical experience supported by published and unpublished data are analyzed and discussed. The object of these efforts is to identify knowledge and management routine gaps in the practical dairy operation, in order to point out directions and improvements for successful implementation of IDCM in the dairy cows' health, reproduction, nutrition and wellbeing.

scholarly journals In Situ Assessment of Degradability of Organic Matter in the Rumen of the Dairy Cow

1998 ◽  
Vol 81 (7) ◽  
pp. 1985-1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Arieli ◽  
S.J. Mabjeesh ◽  
Z. Shabi ◽  
I. Bruckental ◽  
Y. Aharoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Dairy Cow ◽  
In Situ Assessment

scholarly journals Ruminal availability of nitrogen and carbohydrates from fresh and preserved herbage in dairy cows.

1990 ◽  
Vol 38 (3B) ◽  
pp. 499-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M. van Vuuren ◽  
S. Tamminga ◽  
R.S. Ketelaar
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Organic Matter ◽  
Dairy Cows ◽  
Dairy Cow ◽  
Crude Protein ◽  
Soluble Carbohydrates ◽  
Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes ◽  
Consistent Effect ◽  
Degrading Enzymes ◽  
Lower Ratio

Rumen degradabilities of crude protein and non-protein organic matter of fresh and preserved herbage, obtained with nylon bag studies, were compared and consequences for dairy cow rations discussed. Results from 4 experiments indicate that fresh and preserved herbage fertilized at high rates of nitrogen, had a large surplus of fermentable nitrogen. In fresh herbage the ratio of soluble nitrogen:soluble non-protein organic matter ("carbohydrates") was lower than the ratio of insoluble, degraded nitrogen:insoluble, degraded carbohydrates. It is concluded that ingredients with a low ratio of insoluble, degraded nitrogen:insoluble, degraded carbohydrates may be appropriate supplements for grass-based diets. In preserved herbage the ratio of soluble nitrogen:soluble carbohydrates exceeded the ratio of insoluble degraded nitrogen:insoluble degraded carbohydrates. Wilting had no consistent effect on the ratios of nitrogen:carbohydrates. Treatment with cell wall degrading enzymes gave a lower ratio of soluble nitrogen:soluble carbohydrates. It is suggested that silage-based diets require supplementation with ingredients high in soluble carbohydrates. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

scholarly journals Enzymes as silage additive. Effect on fermentation quality, digestibility in sheep, degradability in sacco and performance in growing cattle

1985 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 284-292
Author(s):  
Pekka Huhtanen ◽  
Kari Hissa ◽  
Seija Jaakkola
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Organic Matter ◽  
Acetic Acid ◽  
Lactic Acid ◽  
Dairy Cow ◽  
Farm Scale ◽  
Fermentation Quality ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Silage Additives ◽  
In Sacco

Fungal glucose oxidase and cellulase were used as silage additives in laboratory (25 l), pilot (3 m3) and farm scale (250 t) silos. In 3 m3 scale silos, pH and the concentration of acetic acid were lower and the concentrations of lactic acid and sugars were higher in the enzyme treated than in untreated silage. The concentration of butyric acid was equal to or lower than in formic acid treated silage in all experiments. Cell wall constituents were degraded in the silo by cellulase and thus more energy was available for lactic acid bacteria. With increasing levels of cellulase application, the disappearance of organic matter (OM) from nylon bags incubated for 1 to 12 h in the rumen of a dairy cow increased significantly (P

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