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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span lang="EN-GB">Apologies for Cross-Posting</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Announcement: New Book<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Disrupting the Economy of Genocide</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">Encountering Other Animals Amid the Necropolitical Exploitation of Life</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">Published by Pavement Books,
<b><i>Zoogenesis: Thinking Encounter with Animals</i></b> by Richard Iveson offers
</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">radical new possibilities for encountering and thinking with other animals, and for the politics of animal liberation. Arguing that the machinations of power that legitimize the killing of nonhuman animals are
thoroughly entangled with the ‘noncriminal’ putting to death of <i>human</i> animals<span>,
</span><i>Zoogenesis </i>shows how such <span>legitimation consists in a </span>theatrics of displacement that transforms singular, nonsubstitutable living beings
<span>into mute, subjugated bodies that may be slaughtered but never murdered. In an attempt to disrupt what is, quite simply, the instrumentalizing and exploitative economy of genocide, Iveson
</span>thereafter explores the possibility of interventions that<span> function in the
<i>opposite</i> direction to this ‘animalizing’ displacement – interventions that
</span>potentially <span>make it <i>un</i>thinkable that living beings can be ‘legitimately’ slaughtered.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">Zoogenesis </span>
</i><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">tracks several such disruptive interventions or “animal encounters” across various disciplinary boundaries – stumbling upon their traces in a short story by Franz Kafka, in the bathroom of Jacques Derrida, in a
politically galvanising slogan, </span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">in the deaths of centipedes both actual and fictional, in the newfound plasticity of the gene, and in the sharing of an inhuman knowledge that saves novelist William S. Burroughs
from a life of deadly ignorance. <span>Such encounters, argues Iveson, are </span>
<i>zoo-genetic</i>, with <i>zoogenesis</i> naming the emergence<i> </i>of a <i>new</i> living being<span> that interrupts habitual instrumentalization and exploitation. With this creative event, a</span> new conception of the political emerges which, as the
supplement of an ethical demand, offers potentially radical new ways of being with other animals.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">“one of the most thorough and exhaustive treatments of philosophy's recent encounters with animality … With both impressive scope and penetrating critique,
<i>Zoogenesis</i> allows us to think through a comprehensive rearticulation of 'the human' in a radically subversive manner” – John Ó Maoilearca, Professor of Film Studies at Kingston University, London, and author of
<i>Postural Mutations: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy</i> (2015).</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times">“Encounters between human living, and other living entities, and between fictive and imaginary, Aristotelian and Cartesian animals are here staged with respect to competing notions of life
and value, of writing and of literature. … Richard Iveson reads a variety of sources with insight and discrimination<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span> contributing highly effectively to this recently emergent and rapidly expanding new life form: zoogenesis”
–</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times">Joanna Hodge,
</span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">Professor of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, and
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times">author of <i>Derrida on Time
</i>(2007).</span></p>
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