Animal Spaces, Beastly Places

In his important 1980 essay "Why Look at Animals?" critic John Berger lamented the marginalization of animals in modernity.Animals, he argued, have been rendered invisible within modern capitalist society.We can no longer see, neither conceptually nor perceptually, the authentic animality of animals, for it has slipped out of our view.A reductive human relation to the animal world has transformed them into commodities, degraded them as members of the bourgeois family unit, contained them in national parks, game reserves andmost tragically -zoos.How to get these invisible animals into view?How to put animals into the center of