Speculative Taxidermy
88A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON BOTANY: SETTING THE ICONOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY Fairnington’s Flora series challenges the vie ...
A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON89 fying assonances and discrepancies. For this reason, the gaze of the nat- ural historian ontolog ...
90A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON Luca Ghini, founder of the academic study of nature in Bologna and Pisa.^55 Ghini introduced the ...
A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON91 nineteenth century is the result of the emergence of this very metaphysics of presence that larg ...
92A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON material contingencies of the spatializations through which nature was cul- turally constructed— ...
A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON93 relied on an ontological flattening that aligned natural objects and art objects, contributing t ...
94A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON absolute clarity. By the effect of backlighting, an observer placed in the central tower could s ...
A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON95 enabled the organization of an effective analytical system.^68 At the core of the removal of the ...
96A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON Convenient things shared an aesthetic continuity when juxtaposed—they seemed, in a sense, natura ...
A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON97 practical parallelisms with the epistemic rules of formation that informed natural history illus ...
98A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON Both epistemic modalities constructed spatializations whose material specificities defined the o ...
A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON99 epistemological essence. Far from indulging in the ostentatious theatri- cality of some recent a ...
100A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON practices of participation and delegation. Focusing on the aim of gener- ating ecological aware ...
A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON101 Aristotelian cosmologies of two alchemists, the Majorcan philosopher Ramon Lull (1232–1215) and ...
102A NATURAL HISTORY PANOPTICON for God’s judgment? Quite cunningly, encapsulating the need to make sense of human existence th ...
Form, attitude, naturalness of coloured parts, adjustment of wings, angle of legs, centre of gravity, smoothness, neatness of fi ...
104DIORAMAS of curiosities individualized and decontextualized objects against plain backgrounds, natural history dioramas pres ...
DIORAMAS105 situated in a contemporary art gallery, the diorama no longer ventrilo- quizes the rhetoric of natural history but ...
106DIORAMAS man’s indelible impact on the environment by littering the scene with signs of the indiscriminate capitalist regist ...
DIORAMAS107 despite, or simply because of, humans’ alteration of the environment. This is an example of the dark ecological loo ...
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