Animals disappearing
Animals disappearing: meaning not only the withdrawing of animals and their gazes amongst humans, but also animals becoming extinct. Recent reports show that over a third or even half of all species on earth are in risk of extinction by 2100, and the numbers of around half of all species are in decline. Researches consider that to be the biggest environmental thread to humans. Over the last 200 years the joint life has changed radically; animals have become products and representations, amount of which is increasing all the time. If — as Jacques Derrida claims - human subjectivity is based neither in reason, nor in being, nor the human other or unconscious, but in animals, what do these trends and their conclusion, the world without animals but filled with representations of animals, mean for us? Is it possible, that we do not yet know who we are, or that we have never been humans? If we do not know who we are, and if our subjectivity is constituted through animals, one has to ask: what are animals — so long as they still exist? With whom do we live on this earth? (references: John Berger, Jacques Derrida, Donna Haraway)