PHIL 293 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Subliminal Stimuli, Industrialisation, Religious Image
7 Dec 2017
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Zoo has demonstrated a relational dynamic of mastery. Symbol of dominion, projecting an imperial image of the man-the-monarch -ruler of nature, lord of the wild. Then turned public and became a ritual of entertainment. Contemporary zoo has become a scientific park and an emblem of conservation policy-projects religious image. > the new noah: saviour of species, the beats benign despot. The zoo has been organized according to anthropocentrist and arguably androcentist hierarchies and designs. Zoos are now justified by appeal to their allegedly saving graces. Legitimized as havens of wildlife protection, vessels for the rescue of an animal kingdom under attack from industrial civilization. Zoos erase the most manifestly natural traits of what were once wild beings, capacities either to elude or engage others freely. Because zoos force its show -items into an overexposure that degrades their real nature, the zoo can be seen to partake in the paradoxical form of pornography-institution of visive violence.
