The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Artist as Ethologist

112 Pages·2022·1.656 MB·English

by  Arnaud Gerspacher

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What They Seem
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The Owls Are Not
What They Seem
Artist as Ethologist
Arnaud Gerspacher
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Contents
Preface xi
Introduction: Some Donkeys, a Stuffed
Monkey, and the Animal Factishe 1
Ethology and Art: Modernist Behaviorists
and Avant- Garde Field Aesthetics 19
Step 1: Deconditioning Animality (Still
Humanist in Certain Regards) 33
Step 2: Nonhuman Worlds (Entering
Posthumanism) 53
Step 3: Zoopolitics (A Political
Critical Ethology) 79
Acknowledgments 93