Giovanni Aloi maps the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin, bones, and feathers in gallery spaces, films, and fashion as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal relationships. Giovanni Aloi makes an important contribution here to the non-human shift and invites us to renew the approach to inter-species relations. Speculative Taxidermy is a call to moderate our judgments and reflections and proposes a meticulous and in-depth examination as well of the history of the materialities as of the social history which could appear on and even "in" the skin of animals.