... as if she’s lying on her belly, head propped on her elbows, chin in hands, peering intently into the jungle in the lawn. Deadly Kingdom punctures the self-serving myths that obscure our understanding of the natural world. The unnatural acts of wild animals penned up in zoos, or forced...

...This chapter theorizes a new mode of resonant imagery that might inspire imaginative engagements with the hidden social and ecological histories of oil extraction and spur the formation of a new sort of sensory engagement with the natural world that would displace the authoritative gaze...

... of Natural History, commemorating James Ford Bell. The museum continues to draw thousands of Minnesota schoolchildren, who tour the dioramas and explore the natural world in the touch and see room. The Bell also presents exhibits on contemporary environmental issues, such as sustainable housing...

... or a universal, abstract, monetary exchange value. The chapter concludes with a description of the currency of modernism and capitalism as a tangible indicator of the spread of biopolitics, and with an analysis of what “saving the natural world” mean. Lacan Jacques modernism value exchange value Benjamin...

... these and many other questions, this book looks at the most visible and evocative aspect of camp life: its landscape and architecture. It argues that summer camps delivered much more than a simple encounter with the natural world. Instead, it suggests, camps provided a man-made version of wilderness, shaped...

... between visual representations, the natural world, and professional identity; and it was through specimen logic and visual images that insects became things of beauty. conventions for depicting insects and amateur artists global trade Historia insectorum Ray Hooke Robert assignment to draw insects...

... state or damaged condition of the natural world, and analyzes the mythic state of nature and the ideal and ideological beginnings of the ruling political authority. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the problems of anarchic ecology concerning “wildness.” anarchy anthropological machine ethics...

...This chapter talks about the ethical and political concern of radical ecology in saving the natural world, focusing on the anarchic aspects of ethics and politics, and the kinds of theoretical constellations that might help in releasing nature from political claims of human sovereignty...