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shaped by power relations that configured animal bodies as quelled in their represen-

tational, objectified status. Foucault 1975b:203.

70. R. Descartes 1637, Discourse on the Method (New York: Cosimo, 2008).


71. Findlen 1994:23.


72. It was in this epistemological context that light emerged as the preponderant, signifying,
    epistemic source of the classical age—full lighting facilitated the all-seeing ambition
    of the eye of the observer, aiding the production of knowledge shaped by power rela-
    tions that configured animal bodies as quelled in their representational, objectified
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    (London: Routledge, 1970, 2003), 20.


73. Ibid., 146.


74. Ibid., 30.


75. Ibid., 20.


76. Ibid., 22–24.


77. Ibid., 26.


78. L. Daston and K. Park 2001, Wonders and the Order of Nature (New York: Zone), 260.


79. J. Derrida 2008, The Animal That Therefore I Am (New York: Fordham University
    Press), 54.


80. Ibid., 147–148.


81. Descartes 1637:45.


82. S. Gensini and M. Fusco 2010, Animal Loquens: Linguaggio e Conoscenza Negli Ani-
    mali Non Umani da Aristotele a Chomsky (Roma: Carocci), 58–114.


83. Broglio 2011:xvii.


84. R. Descartes 1629, Treatise of Man (Amherst: Prometheus, 2003).


85. Ibid., xxix.


86. Descartes 1637:44.


87. R. Malbert 2013, “Foreword,” in B. Dillon and M. Warner, Curiosity: Art and the Plea-
    sures of Knowing (London: Hayward), 9.


88. C. Sheehy, ed. 2006, Cabinets of Curiosities: Mark Dion and the University as Installa-
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89. P. Hoare 2014, “Museum and Gallery Curators Reopen the Cabinet of Curiosities
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90. L. G. Corrin, M. Know, and N. Bryson, 1997, Mark Dion (London: Phaidon), 48.


91. Daston and Park 2001:110.


92. Augustine 397–398, Confessions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 211.


93. Ibid., 110–116.


94. J. Locke 1693, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (London: A. and J. Churchill), 134.


95. C. Renfrew 2003, Figuring It Out (London: Thames and Hudson), 90–91.


96. J. Locke 1689, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (New York: Oxford Uni-
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97. S. Greenblatt 1991, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World (Chicago:
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