What the animal gaze undoes

Tonight you'll look an animal in the eye and find something looking back that you didn't expect. Bishop catches a fish and has to decide what to do with it. Kimmerer asks what it would mean to treat the natural world as a relative instead of a resource. Cortazar watches axolotls in an aquarium and the boundary between watcher and watched starts to dissolve. The question isn't what we see in animals -- it's what seeing them does to the categories we use to organize the world.