ABSTRACT In this response to Chris Collins's Animal Parade I grapple with my personal, as well as a larger disciplinary reticence to adopt posthumanist perspectives. I argue that Animal Parade puts our disciplinary values on display and points to the unique position of the performance studies scholar-artist for addressing extinction, environmental destruction, and our relationship with non-human others. Specifically, I draw upon Benjamin Haas’s notion of hopeless activism to articulate the way Animal Parade calls upon its audience and the performance studies scholar to bear witness in the Anthropocene.

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“我们被选中”：动物大游行见证

摘要 在对克里斯柯林斯动物游行的回应中，我努力解决我个人的问题，以及更大的学科沉默，以采用后人文主义的观点。我认为动物游行展示了我们的学科价值观，并指出了表演研究学者兼艺术家在解决灭绝、环境破坏以及我们与非人类他人的关系方面的独特地位。具体来说，我借鉴了本杰明哈斯 (Benjamin Haas) 的无望激进主义的概念来阐明动物游行号召观众和表演研究学者在人类世作证的方式。