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The dream of humanism is to cleanly discard of humanity's animal remains along with its ecological embeddings, evolutionary heritages and futures, ontogenies and phylogenies, sexualities and sensualities, vulnerabilities and mortalities. But, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, animal remains are everywhere and so animals remain everywhere. Animal remains are food, medicine, and clothing; extractive resources and traces of animals' lifeworlds and ecologies; they are sites of political conflict and ontological fear, fetishized visual signs and objects of trade, veneration, and memory; they are biotechnological innovations and spill-over viruses.
To make sense of the material afterlives of animals, this book draws together multispecies perspectives from literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, photographic and film history, and contemporary art practice to offer the first synoptic account of animal remains. Interpreting them in all their ubiquity, diversity, and persistence, Animal Remains reveals posthuman relations between human and non-human communities of the living and the dead, on timescales of decades, centuries, and millennia.
Contents
Animal Remains: An Introduction
Sarah Bezan and Robert McKay
I. Fossil Figurations
J.G. Ballard's Fossil Imaginaries: Apocalypse, Deep Time and Deathly Life
Peter Sands
Photographing Dead Animals: Taphonomy as Embedded Media
Ana María Gómez López
II. Extinction Futures
Snail Trails: A Foray into Disappearing Worlds, Written in Slime
Thom van Dooren
Making Specimens Sacred: Putting the Bodies of Solitario Jorge and Cụ Rùa on Display
Gitte Westergaard and Dolly Jørgensen
A Tale of Two Bucardo: Laña, Celia, and the Contested Meanings of Animal Remains
Adam Searle
III. The Political Cultural Lives of Animal Remains
Beef, Bull and Ballyhoo: America's Cattle-Cinema Complex
Michael Lawrence
Read Meat
Robert McKay
Le Voreux: Scenes of Animal Labour in Émile Zola's Germinal
Dinesh Wadiwel
IV. Empire, Colony: Animal Remains as Infrastructure
Making Cows Live: Bovine Remains and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism
Sundhya Walther
Before The Thing: Viruses, Sled Dogs, Seabirds, and Science Fiction
Lucinda Cole
V. Ethics and Affects: Mourning Animal Remains
Between Data and Affect: Interspecific Accommodation in the Models of Art
Mark Wilson and Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir
Up in Smoke: Cremation, Mourning, and the Afterdeaths of Bodily Remains for Companion Animals
Jane Desmond
Fish Market, Lagos: Artist Pages and Supporting Statement
Steve Baker
