Prologue: Worldly War

Non-human Rights

Non-human Rights
Paulo Tavares

In the new Constitution of Ecuador (2008), Nature, as similar to human beings, is defined as a subject of law. This legal text challenges the ways by which modern-western societies conceive the material world, projecting a radical Universalist ethos based on the commonality between humans and non-humans.

Prologue: Worldly War

The concept of Non-human Rights as radical universalism between humans and non-humans. 

Prologue: Worldly War
Artist/Author: Paulo Tavares

Archive interview with philosopher Michel Serres talking about the book “The Natural Contract”.