Seeing Animals, Speaking of Nature
Visual Culture and the Question of the Animal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2352153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mimei Ito (University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 119-137 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276408091987 |
| OpenAlex | W2025873628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article analyses the use of images in the discourse of animal ethics in an attempt to see how visual cultural studies can contribute to the debate in environmental philosophy. Drawing on Derrida's critique of the utilitarian theory of animal liberation and Mitchell's analysis of iconoclasm in visual culture theories, the article argues that an iconoclastic strategy of visual representation in the discourse of animal ethics undermines the very objective of such an ethical theory. Two case studies - Peter Singer's animal liberation and J.B. Callicott's land ethic - illustrate an implacable tendency to essentialize the visual and animal identity
Aesthetics · Animal ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Iconoclasm · Identity (music · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · Visual culture · Animal and Plant Science Education · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2024 (55) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |