The Postmodern Animal  (London: Reaktion Books, 2000), in the “Essays in Art and Culture” series.  ISBN 1-86189-060-5.

“This is a wonderful book … Steve Baker provides the most cogent explanation so far of how the questioning of human identity ineluctably raises issues about animals … He has given us a great gift, an understanding of a process unfolding during our own time.”
– Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat

“In a beautifully produced volume … Baker reflects upon a wide array of recent critical-philosophical articulations and art practices to offer an enormously engaging mapping of the poetics and politics of ‘animal’ provocations: to creativity, authorship, identities, bodies, post-structure ecologies, epistemologies and ethics, the ‘natural’, the ‘posthuman’, and so on. … Responsible pleasures, postmodern ethics: as awkward, shaggy and ravelled as a runaway merino herd in a storm.”
– David Williams, Performance Research

“The Postmodern Animal was an inspiration to me … in that it was the first book I had come across that took seriously animal imagery in contemporary art and performance.”
– Carol Gigliotti, Humanimalia