Toward an Aesthetics of Living Beings / Zu einer Ästhetik des LebendigenThe question of life has always been one of modernitys main preoccupations, but it was the advent of the camerawith its ability to record moving creaturesthat initiated a new phase in the human investigation of animal behavior. In the world of contemporary art, animals now occupy center stage. Artworks such as Joseph Beuyss I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), a weeklong performance in New York during which the artist lived with a coyote, and