Meeting with Massimo Filippi and Bianca Nogara Notarianni on
neomaterialist anti-speciesism. ---- Sunday 20 October 2024 at 17:00Circolo Anarchico Ponte della Ghisolfa ---- Introduction ---- Philosophy
can no longer avoid addressing the practices and ideologies that support
the current exploitation and killing of non-human animals. And this for
at least four reasons. ---- The first: the quantity of animals that pass
through the breeding/slaughterhouse system every year is simply
exorbitant - excluding small animals, sold by the tonnage, and fish, it
is estimated that around 120-150 billion animals are slaughtered each
year for human consumption alone. Add to this that, given the
characteristics of current forms of breeding (precisely called
"intensive"), those who go through this horror are, in reality,
already-dead before their very birth, a birth that is almost always
planned and that is achieved by resorting to a real industrialization of
rape.
The second: animal exploitation is pervasive because it is at the basis
of almost all human activities (in addition to food, clothing,
biomedical research, tests to evaluate the toxicity of any substance
that could ever come into contact with humans, sports, advertising, the
entertainment, show business and culture industry, etc.), so much so
that in the absence of animal exploitation the entire structure of
current capitalist consumer societies would immediately implode on itself.
Third: the grip on animal bodies is based on naturalization mechanisms
that certainly do not respect the presumed boundaries of species and
that, indeed, are also operational in the oppressive production of
animalized subjectivities that, as such, are treated.
Fourth: Western philosophical enterprise has always thought of Man as
different from the Animal and, therefore, calling into question the
Animal means calling into question the very way in which we think of
ourselves, our being in the world and our intra- and interspecific
social relations.
From what has been said, it should be evident that the animal question
is not a moral question, as the first animalist theorists thought, but
rather an eminently political question that, for the reasons mentioned,
must be addressed with the tools made available by the most recent
reflection of critical political philosophy.
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