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Presenting A Legacy
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Two new museums in Paris and Marrakech will present the life of iconic designer Yves Saint Laurent and preserve his work for the enjoyment of future generations
Making Sense? Visual Cultures Of De-Extinction And The Anthropocentric Archive, Rosie Ibbotson
Making Sense? Visual Cultures Of De-Extinction And The Anthropocentric Archive, Rosie Ibbotson
Animal Studies Journal
This article examines the operations of visual representations within discourses advocating deextinction. Images have significant agency within these debates, yet their roles, and the assumptions they naturalise, have not been critiqued. Demonstrating the affective, triumphant and subversive potentials of these representations, this article then turns to the implications of relying on images made by and for humans within the expressly multispecies space of de-extinction. Discourses around de-extinction tend to place undue weight not just on how candidate species look(ed), but on how they appear to human eyes after the mediating processes of representation, and the notion of recreating a nonhuman …