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🐒 Episode 6 🐒 is with Oscar Salguero, founder of the Interspecies Library in Brooklyn, New York. He is also a researcher, critical designer, and independent book curator.

(00:41): Introduction to Oscar Salguero

(05:17): Living in Tokyo; alternative industrial design; the posthuman condition; alternative interspecies ideas; Anthropocentrism; pigs in cigarettes; monkeys in space; nonhuman organ transplants.

(21:37): Pink chickens; the tiger penis as aphrodisiac; 3D printing organs and rhino horns; lab grown meat and fur; how to move forward ethically?

(33:26): Evolved dinosaurs; a world without humans; Patricia MacCormack’s Posthuman Manifesto; monsters and teratology, the power of the microscope; fleas that caused the ‘Great Plague’ in London; cryptozoology; the film ‘Alien’; the concept of the human as being destabilised. 

(46:25): Horseshoe crabs as sacrifice; artists as shedding light on these issues; books as artifacts and art; the power of transdisciplinarity; how to find the Interspecies library.

Books discussed:

• Ravens (1991) by Masahisa Fukase
• PIG 05049 (2006) by Christien Meindertsma 
• After Man: A Zoology of the Future (1981) by Dougal Dixon
• Tiger Penis Project (2018) by Kuang-Yi Ku
• Pink Chicken Project (2021) by Nonhuman Nonsense
• Space Monkey: The True Story of Miss Baker (1960) by Olive Burt
• Micrographia (1665) by Robert Hooke
• Deep Time (2019) by Lynn Alleva Lilley
• The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene (2020) by Patricia MacCormack

Links:

• Oscar Salguero on Instagram
• The Interspecies Library on Instagram
• The Interspecies Library Website
• ‘The potential advantages of transplanting organs from pig to man: A transplant Surgeon's view’
• Pig organ transplants into nonhuman primates
• Monkey survives for two years with pig kidney in ‘extraordinary milestone’
• 3D printing organs becoming a reality
• Lab Grown meat
• The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene by Patricia MacCormack

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