Zoos and Eyes: Contesting Captivity and Seeking Successor Practices
Zoos and Eyes: Contesting Captivity and Seeking Successor Practices
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动物园和眼睛：对抗圈养并寻求继任者实践
DOI：
10.1163/1568530053966643
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
Ralph R. Acampora
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作者：
Ralph R. Acampora
本文将动物展览的现象学结构与色情作品中流行的模式进行了比较。它考察了两者之间的几个不同的类比，发现它们缺乏或无关，并得出结论，拟议的类比足够强大，可以作为一个关键的镜头，通过它来看待动物园的制度。在这一解读过程中发现的中心思想是自相矛盾的：动物园是色情的，因为它们通过过度曝光让主题的本质消失得恰到好处。文章断言，Keep因其可见性的营销和消费而被贬低或边缘化，并批评了保存的借口。此外，本文还对囚禁的相关框架进行了福柯的分析和批判--我们认为，在福柯描绘的霸权社会机构的禁锢群岛中，“动物园”值得被指定为权力的孤岛。因此，本文建议逐步淘汰我们所知的动物园，取而代之的是遇到其他形式的生命的更丰富和更少压迫的模式；为此，本文探索和评估了非人类动物旁观和跨物种欢聚的替代方法和实践。
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. The paper asserts that the keep are thus degraded or marginalized through the marketing and consumption of their very visibility and criticizes the pretense of preservation. Furthermore, the paper subjects the related framework of captivity to Foucauldian analysis and critique—we see that the "zoopticon" deserves designation as an island of power in the carceral archipelago of hegemonic social institutions mapped by Foucault. Hence, this paper suggests that the zoo as we know it be phased out in favor of richer and less oppressive modes of encountering other forms of life; toward this end, the paper explores and assesses alternative approaches to, and practices of, nonhuman animal spectatorship and cross-species conviviality.