‎"‎On the Animation of the Inorganic is a major contribution to cultural studies‎,‎ a lucidly written work of dazzling scholarship and theoretical brilliance‎.‎ For Spyros Papapetros‎,‎ the vicissitudes in the history of animation from the mid‎-nineteenth century to the present are exciting chapters in the history of the mind‎'‎s incessant efforts to formulate the analogies and correspondences between the human subject and the spaces and objects of the world it inhabits‎.‎ This ground‎-breaking study will be of great interest to students and specialists of several disciplines‎,‎ including art history‎,‎ architecture‎,‎ psychoanalysis‎,‎ and aesthetic theory‎.‎‎"‎ ‎-‎-Leo Bersani‎,‎ University of California‎,‎ Berkeley