Lo specchio teriomorfo: vedersi nell’alterità animale.

Abstract

The phenomenological dimension of other species has always been a source of self-reflection and imagination for humans. In some ways, animality has become a construct that humans have used to define themselves in opposition (dark mirror), in others a place of inspiration (epiphany). Darwinian evolutionism has questioned anthropocentrism, but at the same time has brought out a ferment of opposing ideas on the concept of animality, which has influenced art, philosophy, and anthropology. Artistic movements linked to post-humanist thought have seen in the theriomorphic hybrid a new way to represent the existential condition of contemporaneity.