Theory in Crisis Seminar
Held on February 19, 2021, by University of London Institute in Paris (part of the Research Seminar Series: Theory in Crisis).
In this session, Étienne Balibar gives a talk entitled ‘Critical Reflections on the New Definition of the Human Species’:
The pandemic is crystallizing a new understanding of the Human as a “Species-being”, as well as the very category of the "species" itself, which connects biological, medical, anthropological definitions. A new material unity, a new commonality with other species, but also a destructive character and a rising to the extremes of anthropological differences themselves. As a consequence, biopolitics, cosmopolitics, and necropolitics become a single problem, which calls for a genealogy and a critical reflection.
