The-Animal-To-Come: Zoopolitics in Deconstruction

The Animal To Come recasts Derrida’s reflections on the animal question in terms of institutionality and zoopolitics rather than an expanded ethics. This book makes an original and substantial contribution to the field, deepening our sense of what is at stake in deconstructing ‘the animal’. * David Wood, Vanderbilt University * Sure-footed and eminently readable, this book invites the reader into an effortless and elegant account of politics as is dramatically revalued by deconstruction, biopolitics and animal studies. In so doing this pellucid zoopolitical hauntology offers a singular invocation of its titular animal-to-come, providing an essential contribution to the field. -- Lynn Turner, Goldsmiths, University of London The Animal-to-Come is an inspired work of Animal Philosophy. Briggs offers not only a profoundly original intervention into the question of the animal, but a decisive and compelling reorientation of the field of deconstructive animal studies, the effects of which will be felt for years to come. -- Rick Elmore, Appalachia State University