Abstract
This interview ranges across a number of topics relevant to Dominique Lestel's thought: the history and philosophy of ethology; animal culture; realist-Cartesian and bi-constructivist ethology; biosemiotics; philo- sophical anthropology; animal studies; the other-than-human; veganism; and technology. It touches on thinkers including Bruno Latour, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Paul Shepard, and Donna Haraway.
Notes
The majority of this interview was conducted in person (in English) in Sydney, February 2011, after the workshop “The History, Philosophy and Future of Ethology” funded by the International Science Linkages – Humanities and Creative Arts Programme of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. It has since been expanded and revised via e-mail. Responses in French have been translated by the interviewer.