ZOO Index Reader (volume 1) radical as folk Venice Gordon

Venice Gordon

It’s no mistake that Lenard Smith’s new book borrows its title from Susan Sontag’s 1977 essay of the same name

Born of the collective desire of a group of young

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ZOO Index Reader (volume 1) radical as folk Venice GordonZoo Index Reader examines the relevance of zoos and how they shape our gaze towards nonhuman animals, and by extension, ourselves and one another. Through a mixture of visual research and written contributions on the history of menageries, the confinement and privatization of land, zoo architecture, pets, the naturalization of animals, and the roles of zoos and animals in the history of cinema, this first volume asks: Do we need zoos? What does a