Speculative Taxidermy

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memento mori, 74, 101
menagerie, 71, 98
Metraux, Guy, 125
Metz, Christian, 58, 119
Middle Ages, 9, 60, 80–81, 89, 90, 110
Milgrom, Melissa, 44, 103
mimesis, 6, 9, 37, 115, 122, 130, 136, 147,
172–173, 247, 258
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 106
Mntambo, Nandipha, 35, 209–215, 227,
253
Monogram (Rauschenberg), 34, 182–190,
222
Morris, Pat, 18, 44–45, 59, 130
Morton, Timothy, 236
Mouton-Fontenille, J. P., 49
multifocal perspective, 34, 165–166, 169
museums, 13, 52, 98, 103, 128, 214, 226; of
natural history, 18–20, 44, 46–47, 49, 59,
60–63, 66, 74, 98, 107, 110–111, 113,
121–123, 129, 133, 143, 157, 202
Muybridge, Eadweard, 171, 219

natural history (discipline), 32–33, 41, 44,
51–52, 58–64, 67, 71–89, 92, 98, 105–108,
111–112, 118, 123, 142, 145, 158, 202, 251
natural history taxidermy, 52–53, 217
naturecultures, 16, 25, 64
neoclassical art, 125, 129–130, 174, 200
new materialism, 1, 24, 27–31, 138, 140, 186,
196–198, 199–200
Niépce, Nicéphore, 116
nonaffirmation, 147, 167, 226–227. See also
affirmation

object-assemblage, 7, 180, 222, 227, 240
object oriented ontology, 24, 27, 29–31, 35,
138–139, 163, 187, 195–200, 204, 224
Oliver, Kelly, 180
ontological mobility, 34, 140–141, 153, 215,
230, 255
Oppenheim, Meret, 163–165
optical realism, 9, 110, 155, 225, 254

Order of Things, The (Foucault), 41, 77, 92,

141, 149, 167, 226

owl, 33, 141, 146–159

Palmer, Claire, 232

Panopticon, 32, 71, 93–94

Papadimitriou, Maria, 191–194, 204

parrot, 76

Patchett, Merle, 54

perspective, 165–166, 190

Physiologus, 80–83

Picasso, Pablo, 161–162, 166, 175–176, 179, 184,

187, 201, 219

Poliquin, Rachel, 18, 19, 44, 45, 47, 169

postmodernism, 175, 183

power/knowledge relationships, 36, 53,

56–57, 59–60, 63, 68, 70, 91, 92, 95,

109–110, 112, 130, 152, 165, 173, 175,

202–203, 208, 209, 218, 225–226, 251; and

horses, 230–235, 238–240

Preziosi, Donald, 229, 245

prosthetics, 140, 229, 233–235, 238, 240

quattrocento painting, 34, 148–150, 165–166,

201, 225, 229

Rader, Karen, A., 44

Rauschenberg, Robert, 34, 178, 182–189,

222

readymade, 35–36, 164, 175–178, 184, 186,

188–189, 192, 222, 224, 234

relics, 60, 245

Renaissance, 9–10, 58, 60–62, 73,

76–77, 80, 85, 92–93, 95–99, 110, 123,

202, 219, 223

rendering, 34, 37, 47, 77, 140, 180, 199,

237–238, 251; and Nicole Shukin, 172–175,

223–224

resemblance (Foucauldian concept), 34, 76,

95, 147–148, 150, 153, 156–157, 166, 176, 247.

See also similitude

Reynolds, Simon, 242

Roosevelt, Teddy, 113