A short note about speciesism and aesthetics

Speciesism and some form of aesthetics, they seem to inevitably go together. This might be so because aesthetics can help give an excuse to prolong a wrong stance that one has taken, a wrong stance that one is acting up to and aware of doing so. Speciesism comprises the conscious element of violence and active…Continue readingA short note about speciesism and aesthetics

Gentle speciesism?

stop press: 28 February 2012 – Slaughtering Chickens For “Art” Cancelled in Lawrence, Kansas! read more if you follow this link. Killing nonhuman animals as “art”. Yet another patho… case doing just that. No comment, yet again it speaks for its own state of pathology. Amber Hansen is to be found at: http://vimeo.com/user5118234 and http://www.amberhansen.com/home.html,…Continue readingGentle speciesism?

Does being a speciesist make someone special?

Does being a speciesist make someone REAL REAL REAL REAL special? And artists do usually want to be very special to stick out, to make themselves a name, create themselves fame, etc. No actually no, being a speciesist doesn’t make you special in the arts scene unfortunately, but still in particular young artist women who…Continue readingDoes being a speciesist make someone special?

Aesthetics, are yours real?

Speciesism and some form of aesthetics, they seem to inevitably go together, and this creates a major ethical problem. How do these two connect? Maybe because aesthetics can help to give an excuse to prolong a wrong stance that one is acting up to and is aware of doing so. Speciesism comprises the conscious element…Continue readingAesthetics, are yours real?

fucking naive

PIG 05049 : Christien Meindertsma : just another homocentrist human anesthetizing an anal retentive bystander mentality in speciesism Compare how this young woman and her journalistic partner thematize taking the life of a nonhuman : http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/27/from-one-pig-185-products, using mainly the argumentation of how useful that killing is. A homocentrist argumentation. The mental frameset remind me of…Continue readingfucking naive