Fabrizio Fallas-Vargas
Universidad de Costa Rica
Abstract:
This article conducts a critical analysis of the conditions of possibility for inter/multi-species relationships other than domination, but rather based on the recognition of the non-identical as something valuable and unique in itself. In order to trace the historical clues of these constellations of sociability, and, bearing in mind the Benjaminian category of Ur-image, we have selected two artworks that show, as we found, non-repressive horizons to think about a mimesis-based inter/multispecies relationships arrangement, namely: The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1500-1505), specifically the central panel, by Hyeronimus Bosch, and Creation of the birds (1957), by Remedios Varo.
Keywords: Mimesis, domination, speciesism, racism, inter/multi species relationships, animals.
