Speciesism sells for a reason. Just an / any example: Joanna Newsom – kinda speciesist … ppl feel SO natural with dead nonhuman animals around them http://bit.ly/an78qx http://bit.ly/c8OAPr + http://bit.ly/bWbhAh The aesthetics of a living human showing herself with dead nonhuman animal life. Speciesism sells for a reason … What is that reason? Speciesism seems…Continue readingSpeciesism sells for a reason
Tag: aestheticized speciesism
Long time no speiciesism I’ve been writing about … and no, of course there isn’t any lesser speciesism in arts than as badly as we had it before too. An awkward incident took me to land at the daily poisonous dose of speciesism in art recently … I was googling the net for the “For…Continue readinga local journalist and her speciesist connection
Christian Siekmeier ( practices “outreach” through http://thisisexile.com ), amongst so many others… Desire of a male ideal. Speciesism often plays a crucial role in such a desired image: hunter or slayer is being adored my his object-of-love (a woman or another man). http://janwandrag.com/maletrouble/chris.html The ideology of hunters and their sympathizers takes the inward form of…Continue readingYet another one
The Leipziger artist Rigo Schmidt seems to know how to combine speciesism with biological racism in the unhidden form. Through the reinforcing effect of objectifying an object by depicting it, an idea is being “worked out” and voluntarily and involuntarily revealed about a supposed interrelation of “Man”, “Animal”, and “Nature”. The concept of this triangle…Continue readingwith an anthropological message
Fresh water under what old bridge? I’ve somehow stumbled across a video by the British band “the Prodigy” that gives me the creeps. The song is called “Baby’s got a Temper” and it displays cows crammed into some space where the band themselves sing on a stage and some nude young ladies are “forced” by…Continue readingvisual rhetorics and its traps