A fine and extensive thinking on how animality can undo the Republic:
"it is this sensitivity towards the instinct for freedom shared among all
living beings, and among domestic animals in particular, which, more than anything else, Plato fears will ignite a revolution that will bring down the oligarchy of his ideal Republic." Essay title "Cannibals and Apes: Revolution in the Republic" is a conference paper by Richard Iveson delivered at The London Conference for Critical Thought at Birkbeck College, University of London. Richard, the revolution awaits your book Zoogenesis: Thinking Encounter With Animals.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Farmer eaten by his own pigs.
File under animality and inversions or Derrida "On eating well"
"US authorities are investigating how a US farmer was eaten by his own pigs....A relative later found Garner's dentures and pieces of his body in the pig enclosure, but most of his remains had been consumed."
"US authorities are investigating how a US farmer was eaten by his own pigs....A relative later found Garner's dentures and pieces of his body in the pig enclosure, but most of his remains had been consumed."
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