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Suggested books in English:

 

Giovanni Aloi: Art and animals (2011)

'Art is continually haunted by the animal', wrote Deleuze and Guattari. Over the past two decades, animals have quite literally invaded the gallery space, from Joseph Beuys' co-habiting with a coyote, Janis Kounelli's instillation of live horses, Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde to Mark Dion's natural history displays and Marco Evaristti's 'goldfish in a blender'.

Giovanni Aloi: Speculative Taxidermy (2018)

It draws on the speculative turn in philosophy and recovering past alternative histories of art and materiality from a biopolitical perspective. It is a powerful interface that unlocks new ethical and political opportunities in human-animal relationships and speaks to how animal representation conveys the urgency of addressing climate change, capitalist exploitation, and mass extinction.

Jacques Derrida: The Animal That Therefore I Am (2002)

The book is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida’s work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinction―dating from Descartes―between man as thinking animal and every other living species.

John Berger: Why Look at Animals? (2009)

John Berger broke new ground with his writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the center of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle.

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Suggested books in Norwegian:

Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund: Bare et dyr? (2021)

Dyrevelferdslovern slår fast at alle dyr har egenverdi, og dyrevern får stadig større betydning i våre liv. Men hvordan behandler vi mennesker egentlig dyr? Hvorfor er det slik at vi ser noen dyr som våre nærmeste, mens vi spiser andre? 

 

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Det umistelige - fra global ensretting til et nytt mangfold (2024)

Boken peker på både motkrefter og forsøk på å gjenskape mangfold i kultur og natur. Det er mer avgjørende enn noen gang å vise at alternativene fremdeles finnes

 

 

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo: Ingens herre (2024)

I denne romanen skildres middagens usynlige ubehag, I en verden som trenger kontakt.

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