Social Animal Portrayals: Today’s environmentalism tends to reduce nonhuman animals to the calculability of a pictogram. The questions raised by nonhuman animal issues are dealt with as a concern of ecological biopolitics. What goes beyond the mutual symbioses of flora…WeiterlesenSocial Animal Portrayals (1)
Schlagwort: architectures of destructivities
draft 10.01.2023 The sadder sides of progress We have a basically sad theory: Being vegetarian obviously didn’t imply that people were ethically „awake“ about nonhuman rights issues, hence veganism emerged from vegetarianism, with the expressed goal to cover more interests…WeiterlesenThe sadder sides of progress
Speciesism and spectacle: The display of a speciesist act of harming or killing, to desensitize onlookers – lessons in ‘human might’ — draft 02 12 22 The nofun facts about (technical and self-declared) “vegans“ where I live: a not inconsiderable…WeiterlesenSpeciesism in Art and Veganism (1)
Thinking and sense-giving and sense-perception No, you do not accept a radical multiplicity in being. For you there is only one being that thinks. You do not locate thinking in any other being. At what boundary do you determine when…WeiterlesenThinking and Objectification
People who deny that all the known forms in which Nonhumans are routinely objectified, are in fact the most severe ways in which you can negate someone, do look themselves through a heavily animal objectifying lense. To turn someone into…WeiterlesenAnimal Objectification and Negation
Image top: installation ‚florae obscurae‘ by Farangis. The moral and the ethical aspects of environmental destruction need to be addressed for the sake of “nature”/nonhuman spaces/communities/life themselves. The form of thinking that “nature” and nonhuman spaces exist for societal gains…WeiterlesenEcocide is foremostly and ethical issue
Climate change consists of a compound of consequences of different ways in which the environment is being damaged and destroyed. All those single aspects of destruction are problems in themselves. Environmental destructivity overall needs to be focused and addressed in…WeiterlesenEcocide – Faunacide – Genocide, ongoing (1)