Abstract
Until the modern era, animals were everywhere. Animals were not just part of the visual landscape1; peoples lives were closely intertwined with animals. Animals suffused human consciousness. Laurie Shannon calls the Early Modern era a “zootopian” one, characterized by a “pervasive cognizance” of animals (472). Modernity, however, is marked by the increasing disappearance of animals.2 With the Enlightenment and with industrialization, it seemed as if animals fell from view; as John Berger writes in his famous work “Why Look at Animals?” they “started to be withdrawn from daily life” (260). With globalization, the rate of this withdrawal is dramatically intensifying: we are living in an era marked by the worlds sixth mass extinction, comparable to the last one that wiped out the dinosaurs (Gibbons). As Elizabeth Kolbert says, “We are the asteroid now” (Kunzig).
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Dubino, J. (2014). Introduction. In: Dubino, J., Rashidian, Z., Smyth, A. (eds) Representing the Modern Animal in Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137428653_1
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