In the Flesh: Bio Art, Trans Species Aesthetics and the Question of Technology

In the Flesh: Bio Art, TransSpecies Aesthetics and the Question of Technology Jens Andermann, Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University Thursday, April 26, 2018 5:00pm6:30pm Rockefeller 003 Sponsored by: Comparative Literature Program From the teratological speculations of Arcimboldo and La Mettrie to Gothic fantasies of automata, relations between aesthetics, technology, and the limits of the human have constantly troubled as well as excited Western modernity. At the same time, until