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http://www.cultureindustry.com/animal.htm
Benjamin Bratton's architecture theory site for Sci-Arc†
*Boy, that reading list for that course sure looks tasty.
Good thing they're practicing in LA rather than New York,
or they might be rounded up wholesale for
'architectural bioterror.'
References and Recommended Books
Biopolitics
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scary
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Death, Dismemberment and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America by Lyman L. Johnson
Visions of Excess, Selected Essays by Georges Bataille
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life by Georgio Agamben
The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them by Eugen Kogen
Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszki
The Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rabinow
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Selected Writings
Vermilion Sands by J.G. Ballard
The Haraway Reader, Donna Haraway
Zoomorphology
Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed by Harold Koda
Zoomorphic: New Animal Architecture by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Biomorphic Architecture: Human and Animal Forms in Architecture by Gunther Feuerstein
Folds, Blobs and Bodies: Collected Essays by Greg Lynn
Next Generation Architecture: Folds, Blobs and Boxes by Joseph Rosa
Mood River, ed. By Jeff Kipnis et al.
Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings by Janetta Rebold Benton
Telepresence and Bio Art: Networking Humans, Rabbits and Robots by Eduardo Kac
Atlas of Formal Flesh
Animal Physiology by Richard W. Hill et al.
Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution by Kenneth Kardong
Atlas and Dissection Guide for Comparative Anatomy by Saul Wischnitzer
Hyman’s Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy by Marvalee H. Wake
Cephalopod Behavior by Roger T. Hanlon
Cephalopod: A World Guide by Mark Norman and Helmut Debelius
Invertebrates by Richard C. Brusca et al.
The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine by Catherine Waldby
Atlas of the Visible Human Male: Reverse Engineering of the Human Body by Victor M. Spitzer and David G. Whitlock
Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System by Donald A. Neumann
Essentials of General Surgery by Peter F. Lawrence, et al.
Principles of Anatomy and Physiology by Gerard J. Tortora, et al.
Zoontologies
Representing Animals by Nigel Rothfels
The Postmodern Animal by Steve Baker
Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal by Cary Wolfe
Animal Rites: American Culture, The Discourse of Species and Posthumanist Theory by Cary Wolfe
The Open: Man and Animal by Giorgio Agamben
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
On the Origin of Phyla by James W. Valentine
Acquiring Genomes: The Theory of the Origins of the Species by Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagen
'And,' as Prof. Bratton continues suavely,
'perhaps in case somebody wants to learn more,
this book has all the juice.'
http://www.artbook.com/0976007908.html
