Shelley Tremain, "Ableism, Animals, and Apparatuses"
Channel: GRÉEA
Date: 2021-10-10

Speaker | Conférencière : Shelley Tremain, Biopolitical Philosophy
Organization | Organisation : CRÉ, GRÉEA
Event | Événement : "Speciesism & Other Discriminations | Spécisme et autres discriminations"
Panel 4: "Speciesism & Ableism | Spécisme et capacitisme"

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Abstract | Résumé
My presentation is designed to show how Foucault’s insights can be used to enlarge the scope of discussions between philosophy and theory of disability and critical animal studies. I draw upon Foucault’s identification of far-reaching ensembles of power as apparatuses to argue that this insight can be used to denaturalize the allegedly value-neutral classification of species. Various authors have argued that Foucault’s failure to examine the ways that modern power operates to control the lives of nonhuman animals renders it anthropocentric and speciesist. Such criticisms, I maintain, are superficial and rely upon a misunderstanding of Foucault’s claims about the relatively recent form of power that he called “biopower,” the form of power that is directed at the enhancement of the life of the human as an individual and the life of the human as a species.

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