Unveiling the Wild Within: How Amie Souza Reilly Redefines Our Connection to Animals in ‘Human/Animal’

Human/Animal is, in many ways, a complicated algorithm of metaphor: property markers as a commentary on the meaning of courtesy; the erecting of a backyard fence as a frame for colonialism and surveillance; physical intimidation by a neighbor as feminist horror film. And this is not to mention the slew of cultural and philosophical criticism braided into each essay, including Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Maggie Nelson, and Jean-Paul Sartre, to name a few.

Reilly arranges this all to ask questions: where does our humanity end and our animal instinct begin? And why do we weaponize those instincts (both human and animal)?

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