Rafi Youatt

Mar 12, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Rafi Youatt |Mitchell Abidor |Ihar Babkou |Karen Bakker

Heads of Cats and Dogs. Image credit: Jean-Baptiste Huet / Smithsonian open accessIn the (mildly) infamous opening pages of The Animal That Therefore I Am (2008), a text that has become central to animal studies, Derrida stands naked in front of his cat. This is not the figure of a cat, he says, nor an allegory of a cat—“believe me,” he implores the reader looking for a trap—but a real cat.

Apr 12, 2023 | eurozine.com | Rafi Youatt |John Keane |James Miller

That both the planet and democracy are in peril seems obvious. Indeed, though their crises operate at different scales and tempos, they are nonetheless increasingly linked. As John Keane argues in his essay on how democracies die, the destruction of planetary life is not only the slowest form of democide, but also the most worrying.