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Hunting ghosts: on spectacles of spectrality and the trophy animal
cultural geographies ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 , DOI: 10.1177/1474474020987250
Adam Searle 1
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In lieu of material encounters, nonhuman spectres are made sense of through spectacles, imageries speculated upon with their own geographies and affects. This paper explores histories of trophy hunting in the Spanish Pyrenees, illustrating the emergence of the spectacular in relation to contemporary ideals of nature for hunters, in particular questioning the material implications of hunting for the extinction of the bucardo (or Pyrenean ibex). Theoretically, this paper converses Jacques Derrida’s metaphor of spectrality and Guy Debord’s conceptualisation of the spectacle to understand how hunting ghost animals removes them from particular ecological contexts. Trophy hunting and taxidermic practice serves to produce spectacles of animals at the interface of life and death, detaching them from temporal linearities, and allowing trophy animals to speak to broader sentiments of mastery over landscape. The bucardo was a ghostly figure prior to its extinction, famously difficult to encounter and kill by the 19th century, and as such its absence was marked through trophies to infer its broader presence in the landscape. I trace the changing significances of spectres and spectacles through the development of photographic technologies; prior to the camera’s spread and widespread use, spectral spectacles were produced through hunting practice. A typology is offered for the sensing of ghosts in their cultural contexts: mourning, or the attempt to ontologise remains; marking, or the conditional attribution of language to the spectral; and working, the means through which the ghost transforms itself or is transformed.



中文翻译:

狩猎鬼魂:光谱的眼镜和奖杯动物

代替物质的相遇,非人类的幽灵通过眼镜,根据自己的地理位置和情感推测出的图像来理解。本文探索了西班牙比利牛斯山脉狩猎奖杯的历史,阐明了与当代猎人自然理想相关的壮观景象的出现,特别是质疑了狩猎对布卡多(或比利牛斯山羊)灭绝的实质意义。从理论上讲,本文颠覆了雅克·德里达(Jacques Derrida)的光谱比喻和盖伊·德博德(Guy Debord)的眼镜概念,以了解狩猎幽灵动物如何将其从特定的生态环境中移除。进行奖杯狩猎和动物标本剥制活动可在生与死的交界处产生动物的眼镜,使它们脱离时间线性,并让奖杯动物表达对景观的更广泛的掌控感。布卡多在灭绝之前是个幽灵般的人物,众所周知,到19世纪时很难遇见和杀死它二十世纪,因此,通过奖杯标志着它的缺失,可以推断出它在景观中的广泛存在。通过摄影技术的发展,我追踪了眼镜和眼镜的变化意义。在照相机普及和广泛使用之前,光谱眼镜是通过狩猎实践生产的。提供了一种在文化背景下感知鬼魂的类型学:哀悼或试图使遗迹本体化;标记,或语言对频谱的有条件归属;和工作,是鬼变身或变身的手段。

更新日期:2021-01-19
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