Life extreme : an illustrated guide to new life
Eduardo Kac , Avital Ronell
Versailles, Lyon 2ᵉ, Lyon 6ᵉ...
Ce que dit l'éditeurFor this book Eduardo Kac has chosen to encounter philosopher Avital Ronell, who has gone beyond traditional philosophical themes to focus her thought on issues such as the telephone, drug addiction, television, tests, stupidity, and the greeting. She is the author of dictations; the telephone book; crack wars; finitude's score, the test drive. Both Kac and Ronell provoke the emergence of new cultural practices. They collaborate here on life extreme, at the crossroads between a natural history of human-created beings, alternative evolution, and the private lives of real but rarely-seen creatures. While the earliest documented living being in life extreme goes back to the 17th century, many others were first created in the 21st century. United here for the first time, these unique plants and animals tell a different story about life on planet earth. |
RésuméL'artiste brésilien, créateur en 2000 d'Alba le lapin fluorescent, et la philosophe américaine exposent leurs réflexions sur l'évolution du vivant, l'hybridation et les modifications génétiques d'animaux et de plantes. Ils proposent aussi des citations sur les transformations de la nature par l'homme et des exemples : pastèques carrées, chien cloné, iris hybride, souris à oreille humaine, etc. ©Electre 2024 |
Caractéristiques Auteur(s) Éditeur(s) Date de parution
17 octobre 2007
Collection(s)
Art-encounters
Rayon
Arts généralités
EAN
9782914563345
Nombre de pages
128
pages
Reliure
Broché
Dimensions
22.0
cm x
17.0
cm x
1.0
cm
Poids
345
g
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