Carrie Rohman: 2 books
Choreographies of the Living
Bioaesthetics in Literature, Art, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman reveals the aesthetic impulse itself to be profoundly trans-species, and in doing so she revises our...
Stalking the Subject
Modernism and the Animal
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie...