| Kommentar |
Language requirements: min. English B2
The course suggests to critically study the visual reappearances of animals in various
institutions of culture, education and entertainment through current theoretical
approaches. In each session we will analyze a specific case study in Berlin: we will
explore the living animals on display at the Zoo and Peacock Island, and the dead
exhibits at the Museum für Naturkunde and the prehistory section of the Neues
Museum. We will view the recurring appearances that images of animals make in art
museums, be it in historical artworks in the Gemäldegalerie, contemporary artistic
practices in the Hamburger Bahnhof, or the most recent manifestation in the
commercial galleries. The investigations shall bring together historical chronical and
contemporary critique of thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze and Félix
Guattari, Jacques Derrida, and Donna Haraway. Following the “animal turn” in
cultural studies, this course will grant a perspective on the less discussed, living or
metaphorical, non-human inhabitants of Berlin. |
| Literatur |
Key Theoretical Bibliography
Agamben, Giorgio. The Open: Man and Animal (Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2004).
Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and
Schrizophrenia (London: Athlone Press, 1999).
Derrida, Jacques. The Beast and the Sovereign. 2 vols. (Chicago: Chicago University
Press, 2009).
---. “The Animal that Therefore I am (More to Follow),” Critical Inquiry 28.2 (Winter
2002): 369-418.
Haraway, Donna J. When Species Meet (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2008).
---. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York:
Routledge, 1991)
---. “Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-
1936,” Social Text 11 (Winter 1984-1985): 20-64.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben (Stuttgart,
Düsseldorf, Berlin, Leipzig: Klett-Schulbuchverlag, 1995).
Additional Bibliography
Aloi, Giovanny. Art and Animals (London: I. B. Tauris, 2012).
Baker, Steve. Artist/ Animal (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013).
---. Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation (Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 2001).
Freeman, Carol, Elizabeth Leane, Yvette Watt, eds. Considering Animals:
Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations (New York: Routledge,
2011). |
