Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, "Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory" (Polity, 2022)
New Books in Philosophy
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The Paradox of Hyper-Visibility
The idea of hyper-visibility is important if you want to understand what's involved in registering the lives, seeing the lives of non-human animals around us. One case which is again related to parrots but also to lots of other animals that we talk about is zoos. There's actually a great deal more to be said about modern zoos but zoos aren't the only places where animals are made invisibly hyper-visible. In the book we also talk about some photographic and filmic practices with animals as well as some industrial farms That claim to make their operations totally visible to the public say,. I mean the metaphor that's often used is putting up glass walls but they're
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