I PLAN ON TRANSLATING THIS ONE!...

Extinction by Exhibition: Looking at and in the Zoo
By Ralph A. Acampora

This paper compares the phenomenological structure of zoological exhibition to the pattern prevalent in pornography. It examines several disanalogies between the two, finds them lacking or irrelevant, and concludes that the proposed analogy is strong enough to serve as a critical lens through which to view the institution of zoos. The central idea uncovered in this process of interpretation is paradoxical: zoos are pornographic in that they make the nature of their subjects disappear precisely by overexposing them. Since the keep are thus degraded or marginalized through the marketing of their very visibility, the pretense of preservation is criticized. It is suggested that the zoo as we know it be phased out in favor of more authentic modes of encountering other forms of life.

Keywords: zoos, pornography, captive animals, wildness, exhibition, inter-species ethics, conservation, biophilia

Human Ecology Review, Issue 5.1, Abstracts ...

http://www.humanecologyreview.org/51abstracts.htm

!!!!!!!!!A BRILLIANT ARTICLE!!!!!!!!

LIFE AS BEING OBJECTIFIABLE

...degarding other humans in the setting where animals are being degraded...:

HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE

STOP the exhibition of AFRICANS in the Augsburg ZOO

From:

Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin

and

Norbert Finzsch
Professor of History and
Provost of the University of Cologne

http://www.africanfront.com/AF033.php

German newspapers Frankfurter Rundschau and Tagesspiegel have written about the protest against this exhibition. LINK: >> continue to my post in German with more links in German

http://www.antropologi.info/ethnologie/index.php?id=429796b5c0a57

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