Of human birds and living rocks: Remaking aesthetics for post-human worlds

Dialogues in Human Geography

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 249-270

  Dixon, Deborah ^a   Hawkins, Harriet ^b   Straughan, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aesthetics; art; biology; post humanism; sense making

Indexed keywords

ART; ESTHETICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; SALINE LAKE; SAVANNA; SONGBIRD; THROMBOLITE;

AVES; PERDITA; PTILONORHYNCHIDAE;

EID: 84975097337     PISSN: 20438206     EISSN: 20438214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2043820612468692     Document Type: Article

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