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Hybrid Species And Literatures: Ibrahim Al-Koni’S ‘Composite Apparition’, Susan Mchugh Jan 2012

Hybrid Species And Literatures: Ibrahim Al-Koni’S ‘Composite Apparition’, Susan Mchugh

English Faculty Publications

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Real Artificial: Tissue-Cultured Meat, Genetically Modified Farm Animals, And Fictions, Susan Mchugh Jan 2010

Real Artificial: Tissue-Cultured Meat, Genetically Modified Farm Animals, And Fictions, Susan Mchugh

English Faculty Publications

Although touted by promoters as the cutting edge of food science, meat produced in vitro (rather than from a whole animal) is emerging more directly from developments in fine art—more specifically, from the aesthetic experiments of Australian-based artists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, who ask: What language do we have to describe the agency of tissue-cultured life? This essay begins to answer this question by tracing a tradition whereby bioengineered meat mediates complex environmental critiques in literary fiction over the past century, including Margaret Atwood’s exemplary novel Oryx and Crake (2003), which depicts biotech industries producing three distinct kinds of …


Literary Animal Agents, Susan Mchugh Jan 2009

Literary Animal Agents, Susan Mchugh

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Flora, Not Fauna: Gm Culture And Agriculture, Susan Mchugh Jan 2008

Flora, Not Fauna: Gm Culture And Agriculture, Susan Mchugh

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Marrying My Bitch: J. R. Ackerley's Pack Sexualities, Susan Mchugh Jan 2000

Marrying My Bitch: J. R. Ackerley's Pack Sexualities, Susan Mchugh

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.