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13Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2011.Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to look at the human relationship with animals from the critical or 'left' tradition in political and social thought. The contributions in this volume highlight connections between our everyday treatment of animals and other forms of oppression, violence, and domination. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of 'animal rights,' the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a po…Read more
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39Biotechnology as End Game: Ontological and Ethical Collapse in the “Biotech Century”NanoEthics 9 (1): 39-54. 2015.I argue in this paper that animal biotechnology constitutes a dangerous ontological collapse between animals and the technical-economic apparatus. By ontological collapse, I mean the elimination of fundamental ontological tensions between embodied subjects and the principles of scientific, technological, and economic rationalization. Biotechnology imposes this collapse in various ways: by genetically “reprogramming” animals to serve as uniform commodities, by abstracting them into data and code,…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |