Human Animals
In this lecture series, the CCCB opens up a debate on the need to rethink the way we relate with animals. This is a complex bond with a considerable moral and political component, imbued with both love and violence and one which, in the last instance, is a reflection of our own human condition.
Rosi Braidotti
Becoming Animals
Although humans are the species which has left the most obvious mark on Earth, Rosi Braidotti describes a not too far distant future in which the human species will cease to be the measure of all things. In this post-human world one of the biggest questions we will have to face will be what ...
Will Kymlicka
Animal Rights: The End of Human Supremacy
The philosopher Will Kymlicka believes that the change of paradigm that is necessary in our relationship with animals means putting an end to the hierarchy of species and expanding the framework of animal rights. What effects on humans would these changes have? Will Kymlicka, well known for ...
Marta Segarra
Blood Ties: Animality and Intimacy
Marta Segarra explores the ambiguity of the close ties existing between human and non-human animals. This is an intimacy which can be understood in very different and even conflicting ways.