Exuent: or, when killability defines a life
Buller, HJ
Date: 10 October 2017
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Journal
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
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Catalyst
Abstract
Curated by Astrid Schrader and Elizabeth Johnson: Henry Buller contribution seems to challenge the ethical grounds of
Haraway’s important distinction between killing and making killable. What’s left of life when you are born killable? In the case of farm animals, produced for consumption, it is no longer clear “whether their killing ...
Curated by Astrid Schrader and Elizabeth Johnson: Henry Buller contribution seems to challenge the ethical grounds of
Haraway’s important distinction between killing and making killable. What’s left of life when you are born killable? In the case of farm animals, produced for consumption, it is no longer clear “whether their killing [is] an act of ending or of beginning,” like the immortal jellyfish, livestock does not seem to be allowed to die. Their liminal existence reminds us of the ethical importance of letting live responsibly.
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