Animism

"What is the role of aesthetic processes in the drawing of the boundaries between nature and culture, humans and things, the animate and inanimate? Structured around the aesthetic processes and effects of animation and mummification, Animism brings together artistic and theoretical perspectives that reflect on the boundary between subjects and objects, and the modern anxiety that accompanies the relation between 'persons' and 'things.'" "With works by: Agency, Grigory Alexandrov, Art & Language, Adam Avikianen, Marcel Broodthaers, Paul Chan, Tony Conrad, Didier Demorcy, Walt Disney, Lili Dujourie, Jimmie Durham, Eric Duvivier, Thomas A. Edison, Harun Farocki, Leâon Ferrari, Simryn Gill, Walon Green, Victor Grippo, Brion Gysin, Luis Jacob, Ken Jacobs, Darius James, Joachim Koester, Zacharias Kunuk, Louise Lawler, Lutz & Guggisberg, Len Lye, âEtienne-Jules Marey, Chris Marker & Alain Resnais, Mark Manders, Daria Martin, Angela Melitopoulos & Maurizio Lazzarato, Wesley Meuris, Henri Michaux, Santu Mofokeng,Vincent Monnikendam, Tom Nicholson, Otobong Nkanga, Reto Pulfer, Hans Richter, Fâelix-Louis Regnault, Jâozef Robakowski, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Paul Sharits, Yutaka Sone, Jan éSvankmajer, David G. Tretiakoff, Rosemarie Trockel, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Dziga Vertov, Klaus Weber, Apichatpong Weerasethakul."--V. 1, p. 4 of cover. Contents......Page 7 Preface......Page 10 Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls, or: The Sudden Disorganization of Boundaries by Anselm Franke......Page 12 Theses on the Concept of the Digital Simulacrum by Florian Schneider......Page 55 Biometry and Antibodies: Modernizing Animation/Animating Modernity by Edwin Carels......Page 58 Execution of Czolgosz, with Panorama of Auburn Prison (1901) by Avery F. Gordon......Page 76 Chasing Shadows by Santu Mofokeng......Page 82 Angels Without Wings: A conversation between Bruno Latour and Anselm Franke......Page 87 Machinic Animism by Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato......Page 98 On Wanting to be an Animal: Human-Animal Metamorphoses in Nietzsche and Canetti by Gertrud Koch......Page 112 Still More Changes by Henri Michaux......Page 114 Disney as a Utopian Dreamer by Oksana Bulgakowa......Page 117 Disney by Sergei Elsenstein......Page 119 Animated Origins, Origins of Animation by Brigid Doherty......Page 128 The Uprising of Things by Vivian Liska......Page 133 The Dangers of Petrification, or "The Work of Art and the Ages of Mineral Reproduction" by Richard William Hill......Page 135 "Les lettres du blanc sur les bandesdu vieux pillard": Raymond Roussel's Animism of Language by Irene Albers......Page 138 Assembly (Animism) by Agency......Page 148 Animism meets Spiritualism: Edward Tylor's "Spirit Attack," London 1872 by Erhard Schuttpelz......Page 156 To Navigate, in a Genuine Way, in the Unknown Necessitates an Attitude of Daring, but not one of Recklessness (Movements Generated from the Magical Passes of Carlos Castaneda) by Joachim Koester......Page 172 "Uncle Snookum's Astral Odditorium & Psychic Haberdashery": Sun Ra & The Occult by Darius James......Page 173 On Atmosphere and a Capital A by Bart De Baere......Page 180 Anima's Silent Repatriation: Reconsidering Animism in the Contemporary World by Masato Fukushima......Page 186 Vital Phantasy by Didier Demorcy......Page 194 Animism and the Philosophy of Everyday Life: Le Tour de Tiergarten by Michael Taussig......Page 200 Absentminded Wandering through an Indeterminate Maze of Intentionality by Philippe Pirotte......Page 204 Passionate Choreographies Mediatized. On Camels, Lions, and Their Domestication Among the 'lsiwa in Morocco by Martin Zillinger......Page 216 Exchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro......Page 228 Artists' Biographies......Page 245 Author Biographies......Page 251 Acknowledgements......Page 254