TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Grounding the Predicament and the Possibility to Re-Orient, Unknown Pig
T2  - Visual Essays
JF  - Research in Arts and Education
VO  - 2023
IS  - 1
SP  - 25
A1  - Asanti, Lauri, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/journalfi.article126187
AB  - This visual essay explores confronting the question of banal everyday exploitation of non-human animals through critical question-posing and, especially, by juxtaposing a video and text in an awkwardly confrontational pairing. Speciesism is a way to bypass emotions on a societal level. The article aims to open new possibilities for reconsidering this separation between humans and nonhuman animals. It is proposed that the virtualization of pictures of animals is a form of exploitation that creates a distance between us and the cruelty. The question is, have we become all too human altogether, and what is the essence of this human exceptionalism from non-human animals? The essay concludes by proposing a more relational ontology that is needed to get closer to the ethical relations with non-human animals. 
NO  - Thematic Issue on Animals, Plants, Bryophytes, Lichen, and Fungi in Contemporary Art and Research Vol. 2
KW  - Posthumanism
KW  - relational ontology
KW  - non-human animal
KW  - speciesism
KW  - exploitation
KW  - suffering
KW  - Other
KW  - re-orient
ER  -