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Developing a phenomenology of the animal other through contemporary art



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"Surface Encounters is an insightful consideration of the problematics of animal phenomenology." —Kari Weil, Wesleyan University


"Learned and intellectually courageous, Surface Encounters brims with counter-intuitive arguments about what it means to tarry thoughtfully with non-human life. This is nothing less than a scholarly manifesto: compact, lively, and pressing, as much a rousing call for future imaginings as it is a sober analysis in its own right." —David Clark, McMaster University



Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Staying on the Surface

1. Meat Matters: Distance in Damien Hirst
2. Body of Thought: Immanence and Carolee Schneemann
3. Making Space for Animal Dwelling: Worlding with Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson
4. Contact Zones and Living Flesh: Touch after Olly and Suzi
5. A Minor Art: Becoming-Animal of Marcus Coates
Coda: Human, Animal, and Matthew Barney

Notes
Index

Surface Encounters Thinking with Animals and Art

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      Publisher University of Minnesota Press
      Published 28 October 2011
      ISBN-13 9780816672974
      978-0816672974
      ISBN-10 0816672970
      Also in:
      Wildlife: general interest

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Developing a phenomenology of the animal other through contemporary art



      Trade Review

      "Surface Encounters is an insightful consideration of the problematics of animal phenomenology." —Kari Weil, Wesleyan University


      "Learned and intellectually courageous, Surface Encounters brims with counter-intuitive arguments about what it means to tarry thoughtfully with non-human life. This is nothing less than a scholarly manifesto: compact, lively, and pressing, as much a rousing call for future imaginings as it is a sober analysis in its own right." —David Clark, McMaster University



      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Staying on the Surface

      1. Meat Matters: Distance in Damien Hirst
      2. Body of Thought: Immanence and Carolee Schneemann
      3. Making Space for Animal Dwelling: Worlding with Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson
      4. Contact Zones and Living Flesh: Touch after Olly and Suzi
      5. A Minor Art: Becoming-Animal of Marcus Coates
      Coda: Human, Animal, and Matthew Barney

      Notes
      Index

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