Human muzzle cute11/21/2023 ![]() The story contains many typical ingredients of exotic narratives. ![]() According to unverified reports, villagers had first been terrified by the ‘monster’, then they had started worshipping ‘it’ as an “avatar of god”. The owner, Mr Mukeshji Prajapap, from Nimodia, had posted some footage of the bizarre creature, and the video had gone viral on YouTube and other social networks. In late January 2020, media around the world insistently echoed the news that a ‘mutant’ goat with an “eerie-looking human face” had been born in Rajastan, India. Only through eradicating the primordial stigmatization of the muzzle, however, will a non-violent foundation of human personhood and community be possible. Ultimately, it proposes that the construction of the animal muzzle as an interface of non-personhood is instrumental to the substitution of the human victim in the sacrifice that establishes the human community. ![]() The essay investigates the anthropological concept of personhood from the point of view of the dialectics between two fundamental elements of the socio-cultural, linguistic, and semiotic construction of the self-identity of the human species: on the one hand, the human face and, on the other, the non-human muzzle.Īfter demonstrating that their semantics is contrastively articulated in all Indo-European languages, and after showing that such contrast is featured also in several non-Indo-European languages, including those referring to supposedly alternative “ontologies of nature”, the essay criticizes such opposition through a close reading of Lévinas, Deleuze and Guattari, and Derrida’s philosophical texts on the face and on animality. ![]()
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