Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating
Rethinking Art Practice and Objecthood through Scientific Collections.
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- Contents

Introduction
Edward Juler and Alistair Robinson
1: Narratives of the ‘Fetish’
John Mack
2: Curating Interobjectively in Museums
Alistair Robinson
3: ‘A Readiness to Find What Surrounds Us Strange and Odd’: Objects in the Relational Curiosity Museum
Marion Endt-Jones
4: Art, Science and the Mutant Object
Rahma Khazam
5: Models of Subjectivity: Surrealism, Physics and Psychoanalysis
Gavin Parkinson
6: Glimpsed Phantoms of Sensation: Or, a Psychogeographical Investigation of Various Anatomical Specimens with Reference to Christine Borland’s Cet être-là, c’est à toi de le créer!
Edward Juler
7 … as far back as I will remember
Nadia Lichtig
8: Poetry and the Pathology Museum: A Model of Difference
Christy Ducker
9: The Scientist and the Magician
Irene Brown
10: Choosing, Unpicking and Connecting: On Drawing Museum Objects
Richard Talbot
11: Post-Specimens and Present Ancestors: Passing Fables and Comparative Readings at the Wildgoose Memorial Library
Jane Wildgoose
12: Moving beyond the Specimen (From Drawing Objects to Drawing Processes)
Gemma Anderson
13: Desiccation, Suspension, Extraction: The Inhuman Art of Christine Borland
Andrew Patrizio
Afterword: What’s at Stake?
Ludmilla Jordanova
Art: Art--General Studies
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