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 surface of things. But, Broglio
argues, the surface can be a site of productive engagement with the
world of animals, and as such he turns to humans who work with
surfaces: contemporary artists.
Taking on the negative claim of animals living only on the
surface and turning the premise into a positive set of
possibilities for human-animal engagement, Broglio considers
artists--including Damien Hirst, Carolee Schneemann, Olly and Suzi,
and Marcus Coates--who take seriously the world of the animal on
its own terms. In doing so, these artists develop languages of
interspecies expression that both challenge philosophy and fashion
new concepts for animal studies.
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