The Animal Who Writes

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The Animal Who Writes is written by Marilyn M. Cooper and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822986736 (ISBN 10) and 9780822986737 (ISBN 13).

Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter—treaties, new species, software, and letters to the editor—as they interact with other humans of all kinds. As they write, they also continually remake themselves. In The Animal Who Writes, Cooper considers writing as a social practice and as an embodied behavior that is particularly important to human animals. The author argues that writing is an act of composing enmeshed in nature-cultures and is homologous with technology as a mode of making.