Animal Remains

The dream of humanism is to discard of humanity's animal remains, but they are everywhere. This book explores multispecies perspectives to interpret animal remains in all their ubiquity, diversity, and persistence, revealing posthuman relations between human and non-human communities.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The dream of humanism is to rid humanity of its animal remnants, along with its ecological entanglements, evolutionary legacies, ontogenies, phylogenies, sexualities, and sensuality, vulnerabilities, and mortality. However, as the contributors to this volume illustrate, animal remnants are ubiquitous, and animals remain ubiquitous. Animal remains are food, medicine, and clothing; extractive resources and traces of animal 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 brings 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.

Weight: 540g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032158464