Animals and artists : an exploration of impossible encounters / Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline Atkinson.
"This book argues that the individuated and discrete human self in possession of consciousness, rationality, empathy, a voice, and a face, is open to challenge by nonhuman capacities such as distributed cognition, gender ambiguity, metamorphosis, mimicry, and avian speech. In traditional philos...
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Bristol, UK :
Intellect Books,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Octopus Reality: A Space Threatening Fragmentation
- Interlude 1: Encountering Radical Otherness
- 2. The Dangerous Alliance of Women and Insects
- Interlude 2: Unravelling the Secretions of the Silk/Worm
- 3. Spiders and Tomás Saraceno: Interfacing Nature and Culture through Art and Science
- Interlude 3: Hospitality for an Other
- 4. Deconstructing Logocentrism: Parrot Echoes.