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Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art,culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping of the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Drawing on the speculative turn in philosophy and recovering past alternative histories of art and materiality from a biopolitical perspective, Aloi theorizes speculative taxidermy: a powerful interface that unlocks new ethical and political opportunities in human-animal relationships and speaks to how animal representation conveys the urgency of climate change, capitalist exploitation, and mass extinction.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Speculative Taxidermy
• Author: Giovanni Aloi
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780231180719
• ISBN: 0231180713
• ID: 16233646
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 466 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 226 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. January 2018

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