Founding Member
Carlo Salzani
Animal Ethicist and Philosopher
Carlo Salzani is a Gastforscher at the Messerli Research Institute of Vienna and a faculty member of the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT). His research interests include animal ethics, literary animal studies, and biopolitics, and his last publications include the edited collections The Biopolitical Animal (2024) and Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy (2020) and the book Agamben and the Animal (2022).
Email: carlosalzani@gmail.com
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Salzani, C. 2026. Like a fish, like a dog: Kafka and the shame of being human. 2i: Revista de Estudos de Identidade e Intermedialidade, 8(13): 13–25.
Salzani, C. 2026. L’inganno dell’onnivoro illuminato. Review of John Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves, New York University Press, New York, 2025. Liberazioni – Rivista di critica antispecista, 65: 88–91.
Salzani, C. 2026. Beyond anthropocentrism: A didactic compass for thinking with animals. Review of Michael Rosenberger, Konstantin Deininger, and Herwig Grimm, Tierethik, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2025. Food Ethics, 11: 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41055-026-00223-2
Salzani, C. 2026. Review of Chiara Stefanoni, The Human and the Meat: Animal Domination in Capitalist Societies, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2025. Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 4 July 2026.
Salzani, C., 2025. Politiche dell’erranza. Review of Aron Nor and Eva Meijer, Straying with Street Dogs: A Dialogue on Animal Tainted Politics, with an afterword by Maria Martelli, Pisica Neagră, Cluj-Napoca, 2025. Liberazioni – Rivista di critica antispecista, 63: 91–94.
Salzani, C., 2025. La vergogna del progresso. Review of Massimo Filippi, Laika, forse, illustrations by Andro Malis, Ortica Editrice, Anzio-Lavinio, 2025. Fata Morgana Web, 13 October 2025.
Salzani, C., 2025. Political dogs in the Anthropocene. (Des) troços: revista de pensamento radical, 6(2), pp.e60307-e60307
Salzani, C., 2025. "Entangled Mutualities and the Ecologies of Looking." In: Gil Soeiro, r., Álvares, C., Freitas, M., and Bernardino, L. (eds.), Entanglements in the Age of the Posthuman. Amsterdam: Brill, 65-79.
Salzani, C., 2025. "The Animal, The Creature, the Hunchback: Messianism and Distorted Life”, in The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of Walter Benjamin, ed. Nathan Ross, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), 429-442.
Salzani, C., and Weisberg, Z. 2024.“Animals as Victims”, in dePICTions 4, Victimhood.
Salzani, C. 2024. Leni’s Hand: Animality and Redemption in Kafka’s Women, International Review of Literary Studies 6(1): 56-63.
Salzani, C. 2024.Gli animali di Agamben, Philosophy and Animality, Aut aut (401):37-50.