Human and Animal in European History
Posted: November 20th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Animal-Human-Relationships, Animals, Books, General | No Comments »
Dinzelbacher, Peter (Hg.). Mensch und Tier in der Geschichte Europas. Kröner.
The Companion Species Manifesto
Posted: November 20th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Animal-Human-Relationships, Animals, Books, General | No Comments »
Haraway, Donna. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003. ISBN 0-9717575-8-5
Powdered pig extract helps regrow body parts
Posted: October 6th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Animal - Material, Animals, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, General, Human body, Living tissue, Recipes and magic formulas, Regeneration | No Comments »
"How to regrow a severed finger" via www.dailymail.co.uk
http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/cells-tissues/extracellular-matrix.htm
http://gizmodo.com/372617/pig-bladder-powder-regrows-fingers
http://inventorspot.com/articles/pig_bladder_regrows_human_finger_scientists_cry_foul_13651
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7379745.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7354279.stm
The sound of extinct animals
Posted: July 21st, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Animals, Artificial Bodies, Artworks, General | No Comments »
Image courtesy Marguerite Humeau. Lighting by Diego Trujillo
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/02/back-here-below-formidable.php
“Animal Needs”: The Frog as Medium
Posted: June 16th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Animal Needs, Animals, Experiment, KHM Seminars | No Comments »Last week´s seminar was about “epistemic animals” which “inscribe themselves” through technical instruments and apparatuses. Today we wanted to talk about animals being used as media, focusing on a certain animal: The frog, which has been introduced to the history of science by Luigi Galvani.
Experimental setup as desribed in “De viribus electricitatis in moto musculari” (1791)
To read:
Benjamin Bühler, Stefan Rieger (Germany, 2006): Vom Übertier. Ein Bestiarium des Wissens
Luigi Galvani (Italy, 1791): Abhandlung über die Kräfte der Elektrizität bei der Muskelbewegung (Aloysii Galvani: De viribus electricitatis in moto musculari)