Dogs on Nicola Iarocci https://nicolaiarocci.com/tags/dogs/ Recent content in Dogs on Nicola Iarocci Hugo -- 0.143.1 en Produced / Written / Maintained by Nicola Iarocci since 2010 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 08:05:25 +0100 The posthuman dog https://nicolaiarocci.com/the-posthuman-dog/ Sat, 06 Nov 2021 08:05:25 +0100 https://nicolaiarocci.com/the-posthuman-dog/ <p>Flo, our dog, spent her whole fifteen-years long life with us. Many, many times after she passed away, I wondered if she lived a happy dog life or not. In <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/who-could-dogs-become-without-humans-in-their-lives">The posthuman dog</a> (Aeon), Jessica Pierce poses a fascinating question that somehow helps find answers to my troubling question:</p> <blockquote> <p>If humans were to disappear from the face of the Earth, what might dogs become? And would they be better off without us?</p> Flo, our dog, spent her whole fifteen-years long life with us. Many, many times after she passed away, I wondered if she lived a happy dog life or not. In The posthuman dog (Aeon), Jessica Pierce poses a fascinating question that somehow helps find answers to my troubling question:

If humans were to disappear from the face of the Earth, what might dogs become? And would they be better off without us?

Unfortunately, the answer I can infer from the article is not very pleasant to my guilt.

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