Speculative Taxidermy
28INTRODUCTION with ecological thinking beyond the pure rhetorical level requires dab- bling in irresolvable ambiguities, overl ...
INTRODUCTION29 sumption, and a thoroughly nonanthropocentric determination to reconfigure past notions of identity, gender, and ...
30INTRODUCTION Harman’s conception of humans as other objects achieves just that—it decenters the philosophical subject. Object ...
INTRODUCTION31 bodied humans within a material world are, in new materialism, also in- terlinked to a defining awareness of the ...
32INTRODUCTION Acknowledging the commodity status that underpins taxidermy, and considering it as a thing, but also as an inter ...
INTRODUCTION33 images, their ability to index a “real” that transcends the limitations of language, and their relationship to p ...
34INTRODUCTION the world has led us to a state of alienation in which we constantly recoil upon ourselves, incapable of connect ...
INTRODUCTION35 In chapter 6, “The Allure of the Veneer: Aesthetics of Speculative Taxidermy,” four works of art enable a compre ...
36INTRODUCTION that the readymade-informed artworks of the neo-avant-garde equally incorporated aesthetic strategies borne of t ...
INTRODUCTION37 controversial book The Reenchantment of Art laid the foundations of many essential artistic/political concerns t ...
38INTRODUCTION important considerations should be drawn here. The artists discussed in this book do not kill animals in order t ...
INTRODUCTION39 have been for centuries, and still are, imbedded into works of art in one form or another. These animal deaths, ...
40INTRODUCTION the technology of power is a regularizing representational force inscrib- ing the sovereignty of man and the res ...
INTRODUCTION41 first place.^85 Essentially he reads Las Meninas as a sedimentation of the discourses and practices that charact ...
42INTRODUCTION indeed become a powerful tool. Foucault said that this passage made him laugh; it was a laughter marked by a cer ...
We will work with iron and wood, with wool and sawdust; starting with the head—whose stuffing is easily removed—and the trunk, t ...
44RECONFIGURING ANIMAL SKINS keen to rediscover the history of the craft, to learn how it was made and who made it first. Recen ...
RECONFIGURING ANIMAL SKINS45 purpose of recovering what may have been erased through classical historiography. HISTORIES WITH N ...
46RECONFIGURING ANIMAL SKINS be considered taxidermy.”^13 It seems that to many authors, an essential definition of taxidermy r ...
RECONFIGURING ANIMAL SKINS47 lection (dating from 1725) as the oldest example of known modern taxi- dermy, from which he began ...
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