“Absurd Resistance: Political Governance of Animals in Los Angeles”
cats, who eat birds and other endangered species; and an attempt by an oil company to restore a wetlands belonging to Native Americans, so that the birds will come back. These absurdities take shape in [...] what people wish to slow; a dispersed social media public sphere summons cloud coyotes and turns grasslands into astroturf; and sophisticated scientific models of hydrology, habituation, and cat reproduction