In The Postmodern Animal, Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern p...
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Nov 27, 2008
Anthony
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A bit dense at times, especially in the second half. But, Baker seems to have set out to address his project of definign the postmodern animal by taking a decidedly postmodern approach, opting always to hit at the hard-to-pin-down peripheral notions of basts, rather than trafficing in the straghtforward concepts which they seem to demand. The result is a work that causes the reader to endlessly think through and around notion sthat seem on one level obvious, and on another wholly foreign and unr
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Jun 19, 2011
Stephanie
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I ran out of tea halfway through Steve Baker's chapter that was called something about Leopards, but was really about Deleuze and Guattari's theory of becoming-animal. When I returned from the boiled kettle and the newly-made cup, I had forgotten why the ape hanging on the window-sill was important. But returning to Deleuzian theory is a bit like returning to a dream - it all makes perfect sense until you wake up, and second time around it's never the same as the first. I like that after givi
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Jul 13, 2008
Steven
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Nearly worth it just for the 74 photos and plates of transgressive animal-themed artwork. Equally rewarding is Baker's discussion of artistic techniques and poststructuralist philosophy as they relate to animal imagery and human identity. Although not limited to their analyses in scope, Baker does heavily engage with Deleuze and Guattari, especially their A Thousand Plateaus, for the conceptual framework used in approaching the artistic works he analyses. One of the most thought provoking and en
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