Essays about: "Oikonomia of apparatus"

Found 1 essay containing the words Oikonomia of apparatus.

  1. 1. Management of Morphology: An investigation of the oikonomia of the Swedish horse breeding apparatus between 1874-1940

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Karin-Linnea Annebäck; [2014]
    Keywords : Oikonomia of apparatus; Biofact; Artificial selection; Animal improvement; C. G. Wrangel; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : In this foucauldian inspired study I understand the kind of animal body that breeding practices produces based on Nicole Karafyllis concept biofact, which is defined by her as something or someone, whose growth is controlled and thus no longer self-determined. This leads to the question how, what Giorgio Agamben calls the oikonomia of apparatus governed the morphological changes that occurred in the body of the Swedish native horse population from the mid- nineteenth century and transformed them from many heterogeneous native horses into defined and fixed breed types. READ MORE