Sociokultūrinės Bendrumo Tarp Žmogaus Ir Gyvūno Paieškos: Kinetinis Atidumas Ir Dialogas
Looking for Socio-cultural Affinity between Human and Animal: Kinetic Attentiveness and Dialogue

Summary/Abstract: This article brings together dialogical approach offered by Josephine Donovan and Donna Haraway’s notion of kinship with the organic and genealogical unity of all living creatures. This allows one to focus on the social dimension in the reformulation of the human - animal split and on the role of socio-cultural practices for the human – animal coexistence. After discussing Gilbert Simondon’s concept of individuation in the human - animal relations, I extend Haraway understanding of kinship. My argument is that kinship is not a “given” phenomenon but the result of communal actions, which shows interspecific connectivity. The article analyzes socio-cultural practices as the institutes of embodied non-verbal social/ethical contract between man and animal. Dance as an example of a socio-cultural practice shows assimilation of human-animal kinship through movement and passage in space. Contemporary dance may be viewed as an example of “liveliness” common for all species in an aesthetic way and thus may contribute to interspecies dialogue.

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