Creating the semi-living: On politics, aesthetics and the more-than-human

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 411-425

  Dixon, Deborah P ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; BioArt; Irony; More than human; Parody; Politics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; ESTHETICS; POLITICS; SOCIAL THEORY;

EID: 70350297412     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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