Organized with Vadim Bernard, Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon.

Imagine a world in which one doesn't go on vacation to an exotic country but rather where one goes to explore the giraffe or visit crustaceans. A world in which one can be several species at once and where there are species-less animals. A world in which humans have finally been liberated from the last physical prison holding them back, the metabolic prison of the species. It is time to release the anarchy of the social and psychological space in which it is confined in order to usher it into the realm of the species. Welcome to Zoo-futurism which considers the future of the human being to be its re-animalisation. Positivists will label Zoofuturism as unrealistic without having understood that in the final analysis, the most realistic concepts are often the most useless.

Dominique Lestel is assistant professor in the philosophy department at the École normale supérieure, where he teaches contemporary philosophy. He was a founding member of the Département d’Etudes Cognitive at the ENS and for many years directed the Etho-ecology and Cognitive Ethology teams of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. He was Visiting Professor in Chicago and Tokyo and occupied multiple research positions in diverse American, Australian and Asian universities. His work develops a 'philosophical ethology' dealing with the ontological, ethical and political stakes of the shared life between humans and non humans (animals, vegetation, fungi, viruses, robots and ghosts). He has worked for several years with the group AOO, part of the AME (Art, Mondialité et Ecosystèmes) team at the ACTES Institute at the University of Paris 1.