chronic on: Corine Pelluchon, animalist Manifesto. Politicising the animal cause, Paris, Alma Éditeur, 2017, 108 p.; Jean-Pierre Digard, L'animalism is an anti-humanism, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2018, 128 p. ; International audience ; chronic on: Corine Pelluchon, animalist Manifesto. Politicising the animal cause, Paris, Alma Éditeur, 2017, 108 p.; Jean-Pierre Digard, L'animalism is an anti-humanism, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2018, 128 p. ; Chronique sur : Corine Pelluchon, Manifeste animaliste. Politiser la cause animale, Paris, Alma Éditeur, 2017, 108 p. ; et Jean-Pierre Digard, L'animalisme est un anti-humanisme, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2018, 128 p.
Chronique sur : Corine Pelluchon, Manifeste animaliste. Politiser la cause animale, Paris, Alma Éditeur, 2017, 108 p. ; et Jean-Pierre Digard, L'animalisme est un anti-humanisme, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2018, 128 p. ; International audience
Chronique sur : Corine Pelluchon, Manifeste animaliste. Politiser la cause animale, Paris, Alma Éditeur, 2017, 108 p. ; et Jean-Pierre Digard, L'animalisme est un anti-humanisme, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2018, 128 p. ; International audience
AbstractAnimalism is prima facie the most plausible view about what we are; it aligns better with science and common sense, and is metaphysically more parsimonious. Thought experiments involving the brain, however, tend to elicit intuitions contrary to animalism. In this paper, I examine two classical thought experiments from the literature, brain transplant and cerebrum transplant, and a new one, cerebrum regeneration. I argue that they are theoretically possible, but that a scientifically informed account of what would actually happen shows that in none of the cases would the person be separated from the animal. Our intuitions in these cases, when adequately informed by neuroscience, do not conflict with animalism – rather, they suggest a correction of the animalist position: the persisting animal should be at least minimally sentient. Sentience animalism is a new formulation of the animalist account of personal identity that allows us to reconcile facts about our biological persistence conditions with the intuition that human persistence should involve some kind of psychological continuity.
El presente artículo presenta un caso de incidencia en políticas públicas de un colectivo animalista (Identidad Animal, Manizales - Colombia) que, al mezclar estrategias micro y macropolíticas y agenciar un animalismo pragmático (integrando tácticas bienestaristas y abolicionistas), propone soluciones puntuales a problemas de maltrato y crueldad animal. Se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas a integrantes del colectivo y revisiones documentales sobre legislación animal y producción de conocimiento, tanto de académicos como de los colectivos animalistas. Se concluye que cuando los colectivos sociales apelan al pragmatismo privilegiando resultados sobre narrativas lúcidas y encasillamientos militantes, logran desarrollar una lectura política del contexto que los hace tener un mayor impacto sobre los hechos de injusticia que quieren transformar. ; The present article presents a case of incidence in public policies, where an animalist collective (Animal Identity, in Manizales – Colombia), mixing micro and macropolitical strategies and arranging a pragmatic animalism (integrating welfare and abolitionists tactics), proposes specific solutions to problems of abuse and animal cruelty. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to members of the collective and documentary reviews about animal legislation and knowledge production both academics and animalist collectives. It is concluded that when social collectives appeal to pragmatism privileging results on lucid narratives and militant placements, they get to develop a political reading of the context that makes them have a greater impact on acts of injustice that want to transform.
Italian animal advocacy is extremely divided and fragmented: in this article, we focus on its political dimension. Based upon prior studies, we expected the Italian animal advocacy archipelago to be clustered into three strata: old welfare, new welfare, and animal rights. Quantification of our survey (704 respondents throughout Italy) instead indicated a dichotomy between the animal rights area and both types of welfarists, particularly in terms of ethical values and localization on a progressive/conservative political axis. However, when we used qualitative interviews to probe the views of Italian animal advocates in greater depth, we detected a greater fragmentation and identified four ideal types of activism, defined as follows: political animalism, anarchist animalism, anti-political animalism, and moderate animalism. These ideal types are separated primarily along two dimensions: relationship with neo-liberal societal and economic structure, and degree of intersectional approach with other social movements. In the conclusions, we also offer general reflections on the coexistence of lobbying and protest, the phenomenon on NGOization, and the influence of individual activism and frame personalization on contemporary social movements.
The present article presents a case of incidence in public policies, where an animalist collective (Animal Identity, in Manizales – Colombia), mixing micro and macropolitical strategies and arranging a pragmatic animalism (integrating welfare and abolitionists tactics), proposes specific solutions to problems of abuse and animal cruelty. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to members of the collective and documentary reviews about animal legislation and knowledge production both academics and animalist collectives. It is concluded that when social collectives appeal to pragmatism privileging results on lucid narratives and militant placements, they get to develop a political reading of the context that makes them have a greater impact on acts of injustice that want to transform. ; El presente artículo presenta un caso de incidencia en políticas públicas de un colectivo animalista (Identidad Animal, Manizales - Colombia) que, al mezclar estrategias micro y macropolíticas y agenciar un animalismo pragmático (integrando tácticas bienestaristas y abolicionistas), propone soluciones puntuales a problemas de maltrato y crueldad animal. Se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas a integrantes del colectivo y revisiones documentales sobre legislación animal y producción de conocimiento, tanto de académicos como de los colectivos animalistas. Se concluye que cuando los colectivos sociales apelan al pragmatismo privilegiando resultados sobre narrativas lúcidas y encasillamientos militantes, logran desarrollar una lectura política del contexto que los hace tener un mayor impacto sobre los hechos de injusticia que quieren transformar.
Sous la direction d'Aude Volpilhac. Avec la collaboration de Marion Dupuis, Anne Simon et Marie Vigy. Actes de la journée d'étude tenue à l'université catholique de Lyon le 20 janvier 2020. ; International audience ; Le genre de la fable et le recours à la première personne prennent dans l'ouvrage collectif publié par Pierre-Jules Hetzel en 1840 et 1842, « Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux », une signification que l'on pourrait qualifier d'animaliste. L'humour qui se manifeste dans la reprise convenue des pratiques classiques de l'apologue anthropocentrique et anthropomorphique ne doit en effet pas masquer la présence, d'une part, d'une réflexion plus largement politique où la littérature se donne pour mission de donner la parole aux plus faibles, le peuple comme les animaux, et, de l'autre, d'un discours sur le traitement réel que les hommes infligent aux bêtes, à l'instar de Balzac qui, dans sa propre nouvelle, « Guide-âne à l'usage des animaux qui veulent parvenir aux honneurs », donne à voir la souffrance des expérimentations animales par l'intermédiaire d'un âne qui incarne, littéralement, la « querelle des Analogues ».
Sous la direction d'Aude Volpilhac. Avec la collaboration de Marion Dupuis, Anne Simon et Marie Vigy. Actes de la journée d'étude tenue à l'université catholique de Lyon le 20 janvier 2020. ; International audience ; Le genre de la fable et le recours à la première personne prennent dans l'ouvrage collectif publié par Pierre-Jules Hetzel en 1840 et 1842, « Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux », une signification que l'on pourrait qualifier d'animaliste. L'humour qui se manifeste dans la reprise convenue des pratiques classiques de l'apologue anthropocentrique et anthropomorphique ne doit en effet pas masquer la présence, d'une part, d'une réflexion plus largement politique où la littérature se donne pour mission de donner la parole aux plus faibles, le peuple comme les animaux, et, de l'autre, d'un discours sur le traitement réel que les hommes infligent aux bêtes, à l'instar de Balzac qui, dans sa propre nouvelle, « Guide-âne à l'usage des animaux qui veulent parvenir aux honneurs », donne à voir la souffrance des expérimentations animales par l'intermédiaire d'un âne qui incarne, littéralement, la « querelle des Analogues ».
The article deals with the historical-cultural topic of relations of the Russian animalism with other genres of fine art of the 18th and 19th centuries. When the features of animalistic art were identified as a peculiar and characteristic phenomenon open to interaction, animalism became an original page of Russian culture. The author refers to this topic in connection with the small number of complex studies in the field of animalism. The purpose of the article is to consider the specific features of animalism, as a characteristic original phenomenon of Russian artistic culture, in the context of the existing genre system of the two designated periods. The relevance of the article lies in the fact that the issues of interaction and integration are very significant in historical and modern artistic practice. The demonstration of such "communications" on the example of Russian animalistic painting, graphics, and sculpture further enriches and diversifies the sphere of Russian art, giving it the character of integrity and national color.The article presents a review of Russian and foreign literature on this topic, indicates that animalism entered the system of genres of Russian art of the 18th—19th centuries as a special "genus" of it, showing an independent status. For two centuries, artists set their task to create an animal's image in the sphere of the natural reality they observed. The nature they perceived and the animals in it were reflected in different genres of fine art. In the 18th century, when the Academy of Arts and related classes were organized in Russia, animals and birds began to be depicted in historical, battle, landscape paintings, and still lifes. Wild and domestic animals appeared in paintings by foreign and Russian masters. In the 19th century, the horse became one of the most preferred characters in portraiture and sculpture (along with the historical and landscape genre). The author concludes that the historical realities of that time highlighted that image and determined the formation of a separate "hippic genre".
