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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461023203321

Autore

Broglio Ron <1966->

Titolo

Surface encounters [[electronic resource] ] : thinking with animals and art / / Ron Broglio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4529-4733-3

0-8166-7859-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Posthumanities ; ; 17

Disciplina

113/.8

Soggetti

Animals (Philosophy)

Other (Philosophy)

Surfaces (Philosophy)

Animals in art

Art, Modern - 20th century

Art, Modern - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: staying on the surface -- Meat matters: distance in Damien Hirst -- Body of thought: immanence and Carolee Schneemann -- Making space for animal dwelling: worlding with Snæbjørnsdøttir/Wilson -- Contact zones and living flesh: touch after Olly and Suzi -- A minor art: becoming-animal of Marcus Coates -- Coda: human, animal, and Matthew Barney.

Sommario/riassunto

What it is like to be an animal? Ron Broglio wants to know from the inside, from underneath the fur and feathers. In examining this question, he bypasses the perspectives of biology or natural history to explore how one can construct an animal phenomenology, to think and feel as an animal other-or any other.Until now phenomenology has grappled with how humans are embedded in their world. According to philosophical tradition, animals do not practice the self-reflexive thought that provides humans with depth of being. Without human interiority, philosophers have believed, animals live on the sur