EDITION 7
Editorial
The Days When Animals Talked
José Manuel dos Santos and António Soares
Passages
‘Just when the gods had ceased to be,
and the Christ had not yet come…’
Benedikt Eckhardt
In the first person
A Week in Tangier with Hisham Mayet
Entrevista por André Príncipe e José Pedro Cortes
Metropolitan
Sensitive Rhythms
Ana Pais
Subject: Animals
We Humans and (Other) Animals
António Guerreiro
Animals: What Limits? What Rights?
António Bracinha Vieira
The Architectures of Species
Massimo Filippi
The Mid-Life Crisis of Anti-Speciesism
Vasco M. Barreto
Can Animals Fuel Our Imagination?
Vinciane Despret
Genocides: Some Thoughts on the
Bad Conscience of Philosophers
Alessandro Dal Lago
Wild Freedom: Hypotheses for an Animal Politics
Boyan Manchev
View of Delft
Tel Aviv, 4-8 May 2019
Éric Marty
Diagonals
Notre-Dame: Heritage Politics and Heritage as Politics
The Gaze of Janus
Salvatore Settis
Notes Concerning the Fire and the Reconstruction
Carlo Pùlisci
The Exhaustion of Monuments
Pedro Levi Bismarck
Figure
Luisa Casati - The Divine Marchioness
José Manuel dos Santos
Portfolio: Magali Reus
Humming Along
Andrew Durbin
Register
In the Land of Melancholy
António Guerreiro
Jean Starobinski’s Masks
Barbara Chitussi
Chosen works
Dora Maar / Berthe Morisot:In Their Own Name
Helena de Freitas
dictionary of received ideas
Contamination
Daniel Jonas
What is the meaning of the emergence of animal protection, and even their liberation, as one of the great causes of these first decades of the 21st century? This theme is the main focus of the press file in issue 7 of ELECTRA magazine, where concepts such as humanism, anti-humanism, animalism, the environment, behaviourism, ethology, rights, conscience and guilt will be discussed. Several authors contribute to this reflection, among which are sociologist Alessandro Dal Lago, who follows the history of the indifference of philosophers towards the animal world; philosopher Boyan Manchev, who writes about ecopolitics and animal politics; and professor of neurology Massimo Filippi, who explores the divide between Human and Animal.
The partial destruction of Notre-Dame, resulting from the fire in April 2019, sets the tone for a discussion about the cult of heritage and the way it is used politically, from the perspectives of Salvatore Settis, archaeologist and historian, Carlo Pùlisci, art historian, and Pedro Levi Bismarck, architect and researcher. The three essays are accompanied by images of the Cathedral by photographer André Cepeda.
The eccentric Luisa Casati, the “futurist marchesa” – as the Italian poet Marinetti called her –, who predicted the artistic and cultural trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, is the figure whose story is told in this issue.
This issue’s portfolio is by Dutch artist Magali Reus, known for her work in the field of sculpture and presenting here her first incursion into photography. Reus offers us over ten photos of flowers and flower-delivery trucks, accompanied by an essay by American poet and curator Andrew Durbin, editor at Frieze Magazine.
Hisham Mayet, filmmaker, researcher and founder of the record label Sublime Frequencies, is interviewed by photographers and editors André Príncipe and José Pedro Cortes, who run through the narrative of a visual essay.
ELECTRA is a project by EDP Foundation, launched in March 2018. It is a quarterly magazine of reflection and criticism, and all of its content is made up of original pieces by Portuguese and international thinkers. It is published in both Portuguese and English, and can be bought from newsstands, bookshops, at MAAT’s gift shop and online (https://www.monadebooks.com/electra). The magazine is now also distributed in Brazil since September 2019.
