caa a22 4500 467895430 CHVBK 20180406152802.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00146-005-0007-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00146-005-0007-4 McHugh Susan Department of English, University of New England, 11 Hills Beach Road, 04005-9599, Biddeford, ME, USA aut The call of the other 0.1%: genetic aesthetics and the new Moreaus [Elektronische Daten] [Susan McHugh] Remakes of popular novels and films indicate how animals have become a primary means of representing not only the rapid development and proliferation of genetically modified organisms in plant form but also the interplay of aesthetics and scientific technologies in the post-Darwinian emphasis on species as a social form. Where vivisection worked in the 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau as a scientific mechanism for social dominance, ensuing versions of the story over the past 100years have come to position eugenic breeding and, most recently, transgenic splicing as the trope for playing out the central cultural work of ordering species in the distinction of human species being. But the contradictions of representing animals also open up other possibilities for genetic aesthetics. Especially in the 1996 film remake, the isolation of the successful transgenic animal (akin to what artist Eduardo Kac calls "the beautiful chimera”) and her alignment with the human become the conditions of possibility for a theriocentric (nonhuman animal centered) community of animal transgenics that emerges in opposition to the human genetic aesthetic. Animals remain the medium in which these struggles are (re)enacted, but their transgenic forms enable an investigation of how and why the human is increasingly defined as genetically 0.1% removed from the animal. Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2005 Genetic aesthetics nationallicence Cognition nationallicence Film nationallicence The Island of Dr. Moreau nationallicence Transgenic animals nationallicence Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) nationallicence AI & SOCIETY Springer-Verlag 20/1(2006-01-01), 63-81 0951-5666 20:1<63 2006 20 146 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-005-0007-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-005-0007-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- McHugh Susan Department of English, University of New England, 11 Hills Beach Road, 04005-9599, Biddeford, ME, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- AI & SOCIETY Springer-Verlag 20/1(2006-01-01), 63-81 0951-5666 20:1<63 2006 20 146 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer