Through the Scope of Life

María Antonia González Valerio, PhD in Philosophy, full Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Director of the Seminar Arte+Ciencia, which brings together artists, academics and scientists to work interdisciplinarily producing graduate education, specialized theoretical research, artistic artworks and practices and exhibitions. She is also a curator and leader of the artistic collective Bios ex Machina. Leader of the research project "Media and Species: Ecology and Evolution in Natural Philosophy" linked to the Faculties of Sciences and Philosophy and Literature at UNAM. She is the proponent of a philosophy of nature within an ontology-aesthetics. She has presented her philosophy in universities across the world: North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Polona Tratnik, PhD in Philosophy, full Professor, is the Dean of the Faculty for Slovenian and International Studies of New University in Ljubljana,Slovenia. She is scientific councilor, the leader of the research project Social Functions of Fairy-Tales. She used to be the leader of the national research program Research of Cultural Formations, the Dean of Alma Mater Europaea - Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Faculty for Postgraduate Studies (2016-2019), Head of the Department for Cultural Studies of the Faculty for Humanities of the University of Primorska. In 2012 she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California Santa Cruz. She was a guest Professor at University of California Santa Cruz, as well as at Capital Normal University in Bejing, China, at Helsinki TAIK, Finland, and at National Autonomous University of Mexico. She teaches at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts and at Academy of Fine Arts and Design, at University of Maribor, Faculty of Education, at Faculty for Design, associate member of the University of Primorska. She is the president of Slovenian Society of Aesthetics (since 2011) and executive committee member of the International Association of Aesthetics.

Part 1: Ontologies Performing Life.- 1.Life in a medium - Rethinking the Possibilities of Art and Bio-Media from an Aesthetic Ontology.- 2.The Ontology of Micro-Performativity.- Part 2: Politics of Technologies.- 3. Transgenesis as Art, Art as Infection. The Case of Adam Zaretsky.- 4. On Technique and Spaces.- Part 3: Animalities. Breaking Through.- 5. Breaking Through Animalities. On Spaces and Limits.- 6. Becoming Animal as Biopolitical Resistance.- 7. Animal Encounters.- 8. The Animalistic Sublime.- The Axolotl Immersed in its Spatiality.- Index.