The Animal Apparatus
From a Theory of Animal Acting to an Ethics of Animal Acts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8102285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Peterson (0000-0002-5002-1294, Michael Peterson is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Drama at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, teaching courses in dramatic literature, performance studies, popular performance, and sexual politics. He is the author of Straight White Male (Mississippi University Press, 1997), a critique of identity privilege in monologue performance art. He is currently completing a book-length project on Las Vegas culture.), Michael R Peterson (0000-0002-4524-6819, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-48 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/dram.2007.51.1.33 |
| OpenAlex | W2153444436 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 4 |
The methods by which animal performance is made legible to audiences depend upon a historically contingent set of material practices and social relationships among humans and animals: an “animal apparatus” that is distinctly “middle-brow” and implicated in constructions of bourgeois subjectivity. However, the fleshly presence of the animal also routinely causes it to exceed this order of signification, offering a site for an ethics of resistance to anthropogenic ideologies
Aesthetics · Animal ethics · Animal welfare · Biology · Bourgeoisie · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subjectivity · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Ecology · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |