Putting animals on trial puts humanity on trial | Dr Simon Porzak | TEDxErasmusUniversityRotterdam

In an increasingly interconnected world, the very notion that we could escape our relationship with non-human actors such as animals, plants, and even natural systems is becoming more and more impossible. Humans must find a way to give up their autonomy as the sole possessor of judicial rights and responsibilities if they want to find unity with nature, not against it. Simon Porzak’s research explores the intersections between the history of science and the
history of art, with particular interests in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, opera, and
popular music. He has published essays on Charles Darwin’s barnacle research, boring
operas, digital special effects, video game interfaces, and parrots. His work has appeared in
Modernism/modernity, the LA Review of Books’s Philosophical Salon, 19th
-Century French
Studies, Popmatters, Diacritics, and Unwinnable.
After studying at Cornell University and the Sorbonne, and obtaining his PhD from UC
Berkeley, he designed and managed writing courses at Columbia University in collaboration
with their Data Science Institute and humanities faculty. He is currently an MBA candidate at

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Animals have rigths and souls too, we need as society to respect them and not to see them as things but just like us humans(respect animals).