Conference: Critique of Political Zoology

Part of Live Art Festival, ZOO 3000: occupy species

June 14th, 2013

A) ANIMAL SPIRITS OF CAPITAL
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

MARX, FOUCAULT AND ANIMAL RESISTANCE TO BIOPOLITICAL COMMODIFICATION
Dinesh Wadiwel, Sydney

ZOOPERAISM: »THE PIGS RESISTANCE WENT BEYOND DEATH…«
Fahim Amir, Vienna (talk in German)

WE ARE ALL POLITICAL ANIMALS
Alastair Hunt, Portland

(lunch break)

B) LEARNING FROM…
BODIES, LABOUR, AFFECTS & THE HOUSE OF (NO)-PAIN: UN / SHARED SUFFERING
2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

PARASITIC PEDAGOGIES AND THE MATERIALITIES OF AFFECT
Helena Pedersen, Malmö

GOOD KILLING: THE INTERIOR DESIGN OF PUTTING DOWN
Kerstin Weich, Vienna (talk in German)

(short break)

THE FUTURE IS A PARASITE: INTER-SPECIES HOST(ILITY) AND EMBODIED SUBJECTIVITY IN OCTAVIA E. BUTLER’S BLOODCHILD
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Charlotteville

BODY BARTERING: WOMEN, ANIMALS AND PERFORMATIVE PERIMETERS
Kim Socha, Minneapolis

June 15th, 2013
C) QUEERING THE ANIMAL OR: CAN YOUR PUSSY DO THE DOG?
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

THE WILD: HUMANS, ANIMALS, ANARCHY
Judith »Jack« Halberstam, Los Angeles

»QUEERER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE«. ANIMAL RIGHTS AS THE TEST CASE FOR QUEER ETHICS AND POLITICS
Carmen Dell‘Aversano, Pisa

(lunch break)

D) THE ANIMALS’ „OTHERS“
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

PART 1: INSECTS

INSECT MEDIA, ANIMAL THEORY
Jussi Parikka, Turkuu

OUR ASTONISHING, ENCHANTING AND SEX MANIAC LIGHT BEINGS
Werner Pieper, Heidelberg (talk in German)

(short break)

PART 2: WHAT (IF ANYTHING) CAN JUSTIFY ANIMAL STUDIES?

NEW WEAPONS – BIOPOLITICS, DIRECT ACTION AND THE MYTH OF CONSENT
Vasile Stanescu, Stanford

DISCUSSION
(short break)

E) TRANS-SPECIES SOLIDARITY IN POST/COLONIAL WORLDS
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

BECOMING-EEL, BECOMING-IMAGE, BECOMING-MIGRANT: JULIO CORTÁZAR’S REPROGRAMMING OF LITERATURE AND LIFE (1972)
Claudia Leitner, Vienna (talk in German)

NO COLLAR, NO MASTER: WORKERS AND ANIMALS IN THE MODERNIZATION OF RIO DE JANEIRO
Nadia Farage, Sao Paulo

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