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The Animal Apparatus: From a Theory of Animal Acting to an Ethics of Animal Acts
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 51, Number 1 (T 193), Spring 2007
- pp. 33-48
- Article
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The methods by which animal performance is made legible to audiences depend upon a historically contingent set of material practices and social relationships among humans and animals: an "animal apparatus" that is distinctly "middle-brow" and implicated in constructions of bourgeois subjectivity. However, the fleshly presence of the animal also routinely causes it to exceed this order of signification, offering a site for an ethics of resistance to anthropogenic ideologies.