Ten theses on Zoo‑futurism and the technologies of the future

Résumé

The text presents Zoofuturism as a philosophical and artisticoexistential proposal aimed at rethinking the relationship between humans, animals, and future technologies. The author argues that traditional academic philosophy has become insufficient for understanding the contemporary world, marked by technological acceleration, ecological crisis, and profound ontological transformations. In response, Zoofuturism puts forward ten theses, articulated around a hybrid philosophical practice situated between philosophy, art, and science fiction. The central idea is the transition from an ideal of living with animals to an ideal of living within animals, understood as a symbiotic, metabolic, and existential form of cohabitation. The author introduces the concept of perpendicular reactivation of the species, according to which humans do not abandon their species but reorganize it by incorporating characteristics of other species in a nonDarwinian way. This process is conceived as an existential technology that makes it possible to “inhabit the world differently.” Zoofuturism is also presented as a possible response to climate crises and ecological collapse, advocating the invention of survival technologies based on the reanimalization of the human, in opposition both to transhumanism and to apocalyptic or degrowthoriented positions.