Dear All,
Before we jump into Bhanu Kapil's Humanimal, I wanted you to take a close look at this essay by Trinh T Minh-ha, not from the book I talked about (and also this is not the essay I had decided upon first, I changed my mind in the course of the weekend and decided to leave the reading of this and the first part of Humanimal to next week) but from a different collection. I believe this sets more of a base reading as to her critique of how documentary film making is regarded by different streams of film theorists as well as where she stands with that.
Here it is:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4u8Of958MnQUHJwR2hZREZPbGs/edit?usp=sharing