Land & animal & nonanimal / co-edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin in association with Kirsten Einfeldt & Daniela Wolf.

Date:
[2015]
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Land and animal and nonanimal

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"Land & Animal & Nonanimal attends to the various postnatural becomings, beings, and landscapes of planet Earth. In an interview about urban soils of the Anthropocene, landscape architect Seth Denizen considers a history of land use practices that are also reflected in artist Robert Zhao Renhui's photographs of Singapore's incessant development. Inspired by a recent visit to the environment of Wendover in the Utah desert, Richard Pell and Lauren Allen of Pittsburgh's Center for PostNatural History make a case for including postnatural entities and events within the emerging discourse on the Anthropocene. Encountering "the last snail," environmental historian and philosopher Thom van Dooren considers the meaning of hope and care in the context of species extinction. Meanwhile, Natasha Ginwala curates a paginated intervention on cosmic animal ancestrality with contributions by Bianca Baldi, Arvo Leo, Axel Staschnoy, and Karthik Pandian & Andros Zins-Browne. In a two-part essay split across the volume, sound artist Mitchell Akiyama explores philosophies of consciousness and language against the background of the phonogram in nineteenth-century simian research."-- From publisher's website.

Publication/Creation

Berlin, Germany : K. Verlag : Haus der Kulturen der Welt, [2015]

Physical description

vi, 149 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 21 cm.

Notes

Intercalations is a project of SYNAPSE - The International Curators' Network, published by K. Verlag and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in conjunction with "The Anthropocene Project 2013/2014.

Contents

The Last Snail: Loss, Hope, and Care for the Future / Thom van Dooren -- Part 1: Speaking of Animals / Mitchell Akiyama -- Traces of the Animal: Neomylodon, the Cow, De Brazza's Monkey, and Actor Camels / Natasha Ginwala -- Neomylodon Listai Ameghino / Axel Straschnoy -- This Is the Cow / Arvo Leo -- Zero Latitude / Arvo Leo -- Zero Latitude / Bianca Baldi -- Atlas/Inserts / Karthik Pandian & Andros Zins-Browne -- The Stratophysics of Urban Soil Production / Seth Denizen in conversation with Etienne Turpin -- Preface to a Genealogy of the Postnatural / Richard W. Pell & Lauren B. Allen -- Stereoscopic Photographs of Domesticated Dog Skulls / Images from the Center for PostNatural History Pittsburgh -- Part 2: Unbecoming, Animal / Mitchell Akiyama -- Robert Zhao Renhui: Singapore 1925-2025 / Images from the Land Archives -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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  • 9780993907418
  • 0993907415