Humans: A Monstrous History

Surekha Davies

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Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. In this conversation with biographer and book critic Julie Phillips, award-winning historian of science Dr. Surekha Davies will discuss her newbook, Humans: A Monstrous History. The book reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, identified monsters between these categories, and invented race, gender,and nations along the way. Combining medieval maps and Linnaeus’s system of classification, Renaissance curiosities and science-fiction cyborgs, Darwin’s Origin of Species and Frankenstein’s monster, Humans: A Monstrous History shows how monster-making lies at the foundations of the modern world. Through monsters, people define what they mean by ‘normal.’ In an age when corporations increasingly see people as obstacles to profits, the long history of monster-making helps chart a better path for the future. This is not a history of monsters, but a history through monsters.