Animal Remains

<p>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 <i>animals remain everywhere</i>. 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.</p><p>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 <i>Animal Remains </i>reveals posthuman relations between human and non-human communities of the living and the dead on timescales of decades centuries and millennia.</p>