Oscar Salguero: Tiger Penises, Pig Organs & Interspecies Futures

🐒 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 FukasePIG 05049 (2006) by Christien Meindertsma After Man: A Zoology of the Future (1981) by Dougal DixonTiger Penis Project (2018) by Kuang-Yi KuPink Chicken Project (2021) by Nonhuman NonsenseSpace Monkey: The True Story of Miss Baker (1960) by Olive BurtMicrographia (1665) by Robert HookeDeep Time (2019) by Lynn Alleva LilleyThe Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene (2020) by Patricia MacCormack Links:Oscar Salguero on InstagramThe Interspecies Library on InstagramThe Interspecies Library Website‘The potential advantages of transplanting organs from pig to man: A transplant Surgeon's view’Pig organ transplants into nonhuman primatesMonkey survives for two years with pig kidney in ‘extraordinary milestone’3D printing organs becoming a realityLab Grown meatThe Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene by Patricia MacCormack Bodies in the Post Social Media:Instagram: @bodiesinthepostTikTok: @bodiesinthepostpodcastYouTube: @BodiesInThePostPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.