Zoosémiotique 2.0

Abstract

To semiotise the animal - to narrate it, to say it, to represent it, to think it, to make it an object of science - means to manage the politics of an unsecured threshold: that which separates it, more or less obstinately, from man. To define the animal is to define man, of course. However, it is more interesting to note that, often surreptitiously, giving the animal a place among the "kingdoms" of nature means, in parallel, adding it between the articulation of the social, between cultural institutions (kinship, affection and kinship, affection and affiliations, strategies and conflicts...). In In other words, to make the animal the object of knowledge is to propose a certain political vision of the world. From this point of view, the current ecological and animalist claims, as well as the vegetarian and vegan ideologies and vegan ideologies, signal the naked king. There has always been a politics of the animal: now it is becoming an instance equipped with precise and very determined spokespersons.