‘Animals and Revolution’ Lecture at Ashkal Alwan

Attend “Animals and Revolution,” a lecture by Oxana Timofeeva.

What is a revolutionary project from an animal’s perspective? The lecture addresses this question, analyzing problems of unconscious subjectivity, and collective desire with its persistent negativity, referring to different authors such as Hegel or Andrey Platonov, in order to expose both a utopian horizon of animality, and a bestial horizon of utopia — and at the same time, an urgency of a certain politics of the unconscious.

Oxana Timofeeva is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), a Humboldt Fellow at Humboldt University (Berlin), a visiting Research Fellow at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (Ljubljana), and a member of an artistic collective “Chto Delat?” (“What Is To Be Done?”). She is the author of books “History of Animals: An Essay on Negativity, Immanence, and Freedom” (Maastricht, 2012), and “Introduction to the Erotic Philosophy of Georges Bataille” (Moscow, 2009).