Tabla de Contenidos: “…Meaning and event; or, systems theory and "the reconstruction of deconstruction" -- Language, representation, and species: cognitive science versus deconstruction -- Flesh and finitude: bioethics and the philosophy of the living -- "Animal studies," disciplinarity, and the (post)humanities -- Learning from Temple Grandin: animal studies, disability studies, and who comes after the subject -- From dead meat to glow-in-the-dark bunnies: the animal question in contemporary art -- When you can't believe your eyes (or voice): dancer in the dark -- Lose the building: form and system in contemporary architecture -- Emerson's romanticism, Cavell's skepticism, Luhmann's modernity -- The idea of observation at Key West: systems theory, poetry, and form beyond formalism -- The digital, the analog, and the spectral: echographies from my life in the bush of ghosts…”