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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Steven Best
Associate Professor Departments of Humanities and Philosophy
University of Texas El Paso, TX 79968 915-747-5097(w)
[email protected] (w) [email protected] (h)
Home Page: http://www.drstevebest.org/
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Education
College of Du Page, Illinois 1977-79 (Associate of Arts, Film and Theatre)
University of Illinois (CU) 1979-83 (B.A. with distinction, Philosophy)
University of Chicago 1985-7 (M.A., Philosophy)
University of Texas, Austin 1989-1993 (Ph.D., Philosophy)
Academic Employment
1993 -- Assistant Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at University of Texas, El
Paso; promoted to Associate Professor in Spring 1999; promoted to Chair of Philosophy
in Fall 2000 and served to summer 2005
1988-1993 Instructor of Philosophy at Austin Community College
1987-1993 Teaching Assistant at University of Texas
1983-5 Teaching Assistant at University of Illinois
Honors and Awards
Lois Green Scholarship, University of Illinois, 1982
Donald W. Doerscher Award for most outstanding philosophy undergraduate, University
of Illinois, 1983
Scholarship for graduate work at University of Chicago, 1985-1987
Professional Development Award at University of Texas, 1989, 1990
University Research Grants at UTEP, 1994, 1995
Journalist for Animal Rights Online (1997-2007)
The Postmodern Turn: winner of the Michael Harrington Best Social Theory Book
Award (1997)
The Postmodern Turn: selected for Choice's Outstanding Academic Books list (1998)
The Postmodern Adventure: winner of Foreward Magazine's Best Philosophy Book of
the Year Award (2001)
Included in Contemporary Authors directory, 1996-9, and regularly invited
Included in Who's Who in America, 17th and 18th editions, and regularly invited
Included in Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century
Included in Who's Who in Humanities Higher Education, 2005
Included in the Animal and Society Instituteâs Guide to Experts on Animal Issues (2006).
Voted one of the â25 Most Fascinating Vegetariansâ by VegNews Magazine (May 2007).
Listed as âNotable Alumnusâ of College of Du Page
Listed as âNotable Professorâ at UTEP (Wikipedia)
Bestowed with Honorary life membership to the Hellenic Society for Ethics (2011)
Graduated UTEPâs Digital Academy training program for online teaching certification
(2012)
Areas of Specialization
Continental philosophy, applied ethics (animal rights, environmental ethics, bioethics),
social and political philosophy, media theory and cultural studies, Marxism and critical
theory, science and technology studies, security and terrorism studies
Areas of Competence
Philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, philosophy of history, feminism,
critical race studies
Editorial, Committee, and Director Work
June 10, 2011- Lifelong appointment to Editorial board of Ethics, journal of the Hellenic
Society for Ethics
June 15, 2011 â Added Kerulos Center Faculty
(http://www.kerulos.org/about_kerulos/faculty.html#best)
2008- Advisory and Editorial Board of the Transformative Studies Institute
(www.transformativestudies.org)
2008- Scientific Committee of Design Cinema
(http://www.designcinema.org/)
2008-Reviewer Board of Political Media Review
(http://politicalmediareview.wordpress.com/)
2007- Editorial Board of Echidistante: Revista de cultura si stiinte (Romania)
2008-2010: Senior Editor of Cyranoâs Online Journal
2008- Advisory Editorial Board, Society for Applied Sociology, India
2007- Editorial Board, The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
(http://www.jceps.com/)
2004 - Book Review Editor and Contributor to The International Journal for Inclusive
Democracy (http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/)
2002 â2009 -- Editorial Advisory Board and co-founder of Green Theory and Praxis: A
Journal of Ecological Politics (http://greentheoryandpraxis.ecopedagogy.org)
2001- 2008: Co-founder and Chief Editor of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, a
peer-reviewed online journal (http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/index.htm); co-
produced and co-founded the âInstitute for Critical Animal Studiesâ
(http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org)
2001-2010 Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies
(http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/)
2000- Editorial Board of Organization and Environment
1999 - Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Organizational Change and Management
(http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?PHPSESSID=l189id60i6
26egigcsqqcto7f2&id=jocm)
1997 - Editorial Advisory Board, X-Alta
I also serve as a regular reviewer for journals such as Theory and Society; Theory,
Culture, and Society, Cultural Studies, Sociological Inquiry, and presses such as
Palgrave, Macmillan, Polity, Pluto, Routledge, Columbia University, and Lantern Books.
Professional Organizations
Member of the American Philosophical Association, the Radical Philosophy Association,
the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the American Association of University
Professors.
Publications
I. Books
1. (with Douglas Kellner) Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations. (London and New
York: MacMillan Press and Guilford Press, 1991. (Translated into Chinese)
2. The Politics of Historical Vision: Marx, Foucault, and Habermas. (New York:
Guilford Press, 1995).
3. (with Douglas Kellner) The Postmodern Turn: Paradigms Shifts in Art, Theory, and
Science. (Guilford Press, 1997). Winner of the Michael Harrington Best Social Theory
Book Award for 1997; also selected for Choice's Outstanding Academic Books list
1998.
4. (with Douglas Kellner) The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural
Studies at the Third Millennium. (Guilford Press, 2001). Winner of Foreward
Magazine's Best Philosophy Book of the Year Award, 2001.
5. Introduced and edited (with assistance of Anthony J. Nocella II) Terrorists or Freedom
Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals. (New York: Lantern Books, 2004).
(http://drstevebest.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/behind-the-mask-uncovering-the-animal-
liberation-front/)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5z_cF9xVg).
6. Introduced and edited (with assistance of Anthony J. Nocella II) Igniting a Revolution:
Voices in Defense of the Earth. (Oakland: AK Press, 2006).
(http://www.peacebuilding.info/ignitingarevolution/toc.html)
(http://www.peacebuilding.info/ignitingarevolution/intro.html)
7. Introduced and edited Inclusive Democracy: Preserving Liberatory Politics in the 21st
Century (Athens, Greece: Grammata Press, 2007).
8. Introduced and edited Global Capitalism and the Demise of the Left: Renewing
Radicalism through Inclusive Democracy. Koukkida, Athens, Greece, 2008 (English
translation available online at: http://www.lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-
Life/GlobalizedCapitalismAndTheDemiseOfTheLeft/GlobalizedCapitalismAndTheDemi
seOfTheLeft.pdf.)
9. (with Jason Miller) The Pied Pipers of Pacifism: Gary Francione, Lee Hall, and the
Betrayal of Animal Liberation. (Los Angeles: NAALPO Press, 2009).
10. Introduced and edited (with assistance of Anthony J. Nocella II and Peter McLaren),
Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic-Industrial Complex. (AK Press,
2010, 590 pages).
11. Introduced and co-edited (with Richard Kahn and Peter McLaren) The Global
Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination (New York: Lexington Books, 2011, 311
pages).
12. The Animal Liberation Front: A Political and Philosophical Analysis (E-book,
Lantern Press, 2011)
(http://www.lanternbooks.com/detail.html?session=&id=9781590562710).
13. Total Liberation: Rethinking Politics in the 21st Century. (collection of essays
translated into Greek; Eleftheros Typos: Athens, Greece, 2011).
14. The Paralysis of Pacifism: In Defense of Militant Direct Action and âViolenceâ
(Warcry Publishing, 2012).
15. Global Crisis and Global Resistance Movements (Echo Verlag, Germany, 2013)
16. Animal Liberation and Moral Progress: The Struggle for Human Evolution. (Roman
and Littlefield, forthcoming 2013).
II. Articles
1. âReading Baudrillard Critically,â The Chicago Literary Review, Fall 1985.
2. âThe Existential Politics of Yukio Mishima,â The Chicago Literary Review, Spring
1986.
3. âAntonio Gramsciâs Concept of `Hegemonyâ and the Politics of Everyday Life,â The
Chicago Literary Review, Spring 1986.
4. âPaul Ricoeur: Rupturing the Narrative,â The Chicago Literary Review, Fall 1986.
5. (with Douglas Kellner) "(Re)Watching Television: Notes Toward a Political
Criticism," Diacritics, vol. 17, #2, Summer 1987, 97-113.
6. (with Douglas Kellner) "Critical Reflections on Television and Postmodernism,"
Science as Culture, Spring, 1988
7. "The Chicago Experience: The City as Hyperreal," Social Text #18, Winter, 1987/88.
8. "After the Catastrophe: Hermeneutics and Postmodernism," Canadian Journal of
Social and Political Theory, Vol. XII, #3, Fall 1988.
9. "In the Detritus of Technology," Jump Cut, #34 Summer 1988.
10. "Robocop-out: The Recuperation of the Subject," Canadian Journal of Social and
Political Thought, vol. 13, numbers 1-2, 1989. Reprinted in X-Alta, October, 2002, pp.
117-126.
11. "The Reality of Commodification and the Commodification of Reality: Jean
Baudrillard and Postmodernism," Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 9, 1989,
pp. 23-51
12. "Jameson, Post-Structuralism, and the Critique of Totality," in
Postmodernism/Jameson/Critique, Maissoneuve Press, Fall 1989.
13. (with Douglas Kellner) "Kierkegaard and The Corsair Affair," International
Kierkegaard Commentary, ed. Robert Perkins, 1990, 23-62.
14. "Marx and the Problem of Conflicting Models of History," The Philosophical Forum,
1991.
15. "Postmodern Science and Social Theory," Science as Culture #11, 1991.
16. "Creative Paranoia: A Postmodern Aesthetic of Cognitive Mapping in Gravity's
Rainbow," The Centennial Review, Winter 1992.
17. "Foucault and Postmodern Social Theory," Postmodernism and Sociology, Guilford
Press, 1993.
18. The Reality of Commodification and the Commodification of Reality: Jean
Baudrillard and Postmodernism," in Baudrillard: A Critical Reader, 1994, Sage Press,
ed. Douglas Kellner.
19. `"Rainforest Destruction," Satya, Vol 4, Issue 10, March 1998
(http://www.satyamag.com/march98/rainforest.html).
20. (with Douglas Kellner) "The Future and Postmodern Youth: A Diagnostic Critique,"
Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World, ed. Jonathan Epstein, Blackwell, 1998:
74-99.
21. "A Critical Appraisal of Murray Bookchin's The Ecology of Freedom, Organization
and Environment, September 1998.
22. (with Douglas Kellner) "Postmodern Politics and the Battle for the Future," New
Political Science, Volume 20, Number 3, September 1998: 283-299.
23. (with Douglas Kellner) "La politica postmoderna la batallia por el futuro," Revista de
Ciencias Sociales, Nuevo 5 (1998): 5-29.
24. "Eating in the Valley of Death," Satya, Vol. 4, Issue 9, 1998.
25. (with Doug Kellner) "Exploring Modernity," in The Postmodern Presence, Sage
Publications, Arthur Asa Berger (ed.), 1999, pp. 288-299.
26. (with Douglas Kellner) "Kevin Kelly's Complexity Theory: The Politics and Ideology
of Self-Organizing Systems," Organization and Environment, Vol. 12, No. 2, June 1999,
pp. 141-162. (Armenian translation, 2012: http://www.fatcow.com/edu/best-kelly-hy/).
27. âRap, Black Rage, and Racial Difference," Enculturation, Vol. 2-2, 1999
(http://enculturation.gmu.edu/2_2/best-kellner.html).
28. (with Douglas Kellner) "Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle,"
Substance #90 (1999): 129-156.
29. âGandhi: On the Path to Vegetarianism,â January 2000, Animal Rights Online
Journal
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000123-gandhi.html)
30. âThe 5 Câs: Principles of a Vegan Life,â April, 2000, Animal Rights Online Journal
http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000405-the.html
31. âEngineering the Brave New World: Reality Ain't What It Used To Be,â May 2000,
Animal Rights Online Journal
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000524-engineer.html)
32. (with Doug Kellner) "Afloat in Cloud Cuckoo Land: Some Critical Comments on the
Symposium `Manufacturing Nature, Naturalizing Machines'," Organization and
Environment, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 2000, pp. 102-104.
33. "Political Resistance in Cyberspace," International Business Association
Proceedings, Spring 2000.
34. âFarmaggedon, Frankenfoods, and the FDA: The Dangers of Genetically Modified
Food,â June 2000, Animal Rights Online Journal
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000607-best.html)
35. âHuman Identity Politics: Homo Indeterminus,â August 2000, Animal Rights Online
Journal
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000312-human.html).
36. "Animal Rights and Wrongs," Encyclopedia Britannica Online, August 2000 (site no
longer available, now online at:
(http://www.drstevebest.org/papers/vegenvani/minding.htm).
37. âWhere Humans Survive and Animals Die,â August 2000, Animal Rights Online
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000823-where.html)
38. âRobocop, czyli kryzys subiektywnoĆci,â Kwartalnik Filmowy ("Film Quarterly"),
Nos. 31-32, 2000.
39. (with Douglas Kellner), âPostmodern Politics and the Battle for the Future,â in
Contemporary Political Thinking, B.N. Ray (ed.) (New Delhi: Kanishka Publications,
2000).
(http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/postmodernpolitics.pdf)
40. âClones Râ Us: The Age of Human Cloning Has Arrived,â February, 2001, Animal
Rights Online Journal
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20010228-clo.html)
41. (with Douglas Kellner) "Dawns, Twilights, and Transitions: Postmodern Theories,
Politics, and Challenges," Democracy and Nature, Vol. 7. No. 1, March 2001, 101-117.
(http://www.democracynature.org/dn/vol7/best_kellner_postmodernism.htm)
42. (with Douglas Kellner) âRap, Revolta Negra E Diferenca Racial," Revista de
Comunicaco e Linguagens, (30) November 2001, pp. 201-224.
43. (with Douglas Kellner) "Richard Rorty and Postmodern Theory," in Richard Rorty:
Philosophy, Politics, and Education, Roman and Littlefield, 2001, eds. Douglas Kellner
and Paulo Ghiraldelli, pp. 101-110
http:// www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/richardrortypostmoderntheory.pdf.
44. âCows, Capitalism, and Cover-Ups: The Politics and Economics of Mad Cow
Disease,â Tamara, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2001, pp. 31-59
(http://www.zianet.com/boje/tamara/issues/volume_1/issue_1_1/BESTMADCOWVol1N
o1.htm).
45. âBreak the Cycle,â Animal Rights Online Journal, September 2001
http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20010923-bre.html
46. âScientific Literacy, Biotechnology, and Animal Rights,â January 2002, Animal
Rights Online
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20020106-sci.html)
47. "Chewing on the Rights vs. Welfare Debate: Do Corporate Reforms Delay Animal
Liberation?" The Animals' Agenda, March/April 2002, pp. 14-16.
48. (with Douglas Kellner) "Biotechnology, Ethics, and the Politics of Cloning,"
Democracy and Nature, Fall, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2002, pp. 439-465.
49. "It's War! The Battle Between Activists and Industries Escalates," IMPACT Press,
Issue #38, April-May 2002
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/aprmay02/itswar4502.html).
50. "Zoos and the End of Nature," IMPACT Press, June/July, 2002.
51. Legally Blind: The Case for Granting Animals Legal Rights," IMPACT Press, Issue
#40, August/September 2002
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/augsep02/blind8902.html).
52. (with Douglas Kellner) "La vision apocalyptique de Philip K. Dick " X-Alta, no. 6
October 2002, pp. 101-112.
53. "Animals Like Us: The Search for a Species Identity," IMPACT Press, Issue # 41,
October-November, 2002
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/octnov02/speciesid101102.html).
54. (with Douglas Kellner) "The Postmodern Turn in Philosophy," in The Blackwell
Guide to Continental Philosophy, eds. Robert C. Solomon and David Sherman,
Blackwell Press, Malden, Ma. and Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2003: pp. 285-308.
55. âCommon Natures, Shared Fates: Toward an Interspecies Alliance Politics," IMPACT
Press, Issue #42, December 2002-January 2003
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/decjan03/interspecies12103.html).
56. "Neo-McCarthyism and the New Surveillance Culture," IMPACT Press, Issue #43,
February-March 2003 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/febmar03/best2303.html).
57. (with Douglas Kellner) "The Apocalyptic Vision of Philip K. Dick," Cultural Studies,
Critical Methodologies, Vol. 3 Nr. 2, May 2003: pp.186-202.
58. âThe Fresno Frenzy: Invasion of the Animal and Earth Liberation Fronts,â IMPACT
Press, Issue #44, April-May 2003
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/aprmay03/best4503.html).
59. (with Douglas Kellner) "Contemporary Youth and the Postmodern Adventure,â The
Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, Vol. 25, Nr. 2 (April-June 2003): pp.
75-93.
60. âSon of the Patriot Act and the Revenge on Democracy,â IMPACT Press, Issue #45,
June-July 2003 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/junjul03/best6703.html).
61. (with Douglas Kellner) "The Dangers of Human Cloning," Media Development, Vol.
XLX, Nr. 2 (2003): pp. 40-47.
62. âThe History and Philosophy of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies,â Journal of
Critical Animal Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2003 (http://www.cala-
online.org/Journal/archives.htm).
63. The Son of the Patriot Act and the Revenge on Democracy,â Journal of Critical
Animal Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2003 (http://www.cala-
online.org/Journal/Issue_1/The%20Son%20Of%20The%20Patriot%20Act.htm).
64. âBarbarism in the Afternoon: Bullfighting, Violence, and the Crisis in Human
Identity,â IMPACT Press Issue #46, August-September, 2003
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/augsep03/best8903.html).
65. (with Douglas Kellner) âDebord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the
Spectacle,â Parole: quaderni dâarte e di epistemologia, Fall 2003 (online at:
http://www.parol.it/articles/kelner3.htm).
66. âThe Challenge of Animal Rights,â January, 2004, Animal Rights Online
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20040111-challenge.html)
67. Thinking Pluralistically: A Case for Direct Action,â Satya, April 2004, pp. 21-22
(http://www.satyamag.com/apr04/best.html).
68. âAnimal Rights and the New Enlightenment,â IMPACT Press, #49, Feb-March 2004.
69. âFrom Earth Day to Ecological Society,â IMPACT Press, Issue #50, April-May 2004
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/aprmay04/best4504.html).
70. (with Douglas Kellner) âDebord and the Society of the Cyberspectacle,â Kultura
Popularna, #3 (9) 2004, pp. 59-76.
71. (with Douglas Kellner) "Biotechnology, Democracy, and the Politics of Cloning," in
Biotechnology and Communication, ed. Sandra Braman, Mahwah: NJ and London:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004: pp. 197-226.
72. âIntroduction,â Journal of Critical Animal Studies, Volume II, Issue 1
(http://www.cala-online.org/Journal/Issue2/Intro.htm).
73. (with Richard Kahn) âTrial By Fire: The SHAC7 and the Future of Democracy,â
IMPACT Press #52, August-September 2004
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/augsep04/shac78904.html).
74. âBehind the Mask: Understanding the Animal Liberation Front,â in Terrorists or
Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, Lantern Books, 2004.
75. "It's War! The Escalating Battle Between Activists and the Corporate-State
Complex," in Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals,
Lantern Books, 2004.
76. âDefining Terrorism,â in Terrorists of Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the
Liberation of Animals, Lantern Books, 2004.
77. âIntroduction,â Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume II, Issue 2, 2004
(http://www.cala-online.org/Journal/Issue3/Intro3.htm).
78. (with Douglas Kellner) "Biotechnology, Democracy, and the Politics of Cloning,"
Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society, ed. Nico Stern, Transaction
Publishers, 2004, pp. 53-88.
79. (with Richard Kahn) âTrial By Fire: The SHAC7, Globalization, and the Future of
Democracy,â Journal for Critical Animal Studiesž Volume II, Issue II (2004)
(http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/trialbyfire.pdf).
80. âBanned in the UK: The Home Office Says `Stay Home!â to US Animal Rights
Activist,â IMPACT Press, Issue #54, December 2004-January 2005
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/decjan05/best120105.html).
81. âThe Political Semantics of `Terrorism,ââ in A Peacemakerâs Guide for Building
Peace with a Revolutionary Group, Anthony J. Nocella, 2005.
82. âThe New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery, and Animal Rights,â IMPACT Press,
Issue #55, Feb-March 2005
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/febmar05/best2305.html).
83. âPhilosophizing with a Hammer,â Earth First!, March-April, 2005, p. 30.
84. âKilling the Messenger: Ward Churchillâs Sins Against the Empire,â IMPACT Press,
Issue #56 April-May 2005
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/spring05/bestspring05.html).
85. âThe Myth of Free Speech,â Satya, June/July 2005
(http://www.satyamag.com/jun05/best.html).
86. (with Douglas Kellner) âBiotechnologie, ethique, et politique du clonage,â in Le
Clonage Humain: En Arguments, eds. F. Haldeman et. al., Geneve, 2005, pp. 285-371.
87. âShowtrials and Scarecrows: `Ecoterrorismâ and the War on Dissent,â IMPACT Press
#57, Summer 2005
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/summer05/bestsummer05.html).
88. âMy Dog or Your Child? Ethical Dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value,â
IMPACT Press, Issue #57, Fall 2005
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/fall05/bestfall05.html).
89. âIntroduction,â Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume II, Issue 3, October
2005.
90. âThe Son of Patriot Act and the Revenge on Democracy,â Tamara 2005.
91. âGenetic Engineering, Animal Exploitation, and the Challenge for Democracy,â
special issue of AI and Society, "Genetic Technologies and Animals," 20.1 Jan-Mar 2006
(also available online at: http://www.ecuad.ca/~gigliott/archive/gtanimal/TOC.htm).
92. âProgress or Perish: The Need for Revolutionary Environmentalism,â Introduction to
Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of Mother Earth, AK Press, 2006.
93. (with Douglas Kellner) "Biotechnology, Democracy, and the Politics of Cloning, in
Education and the Spirit of Time, (eds.) Olli-Pekka Moisio and Juha Suoranta,
Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2006, pp. 23-54
94. âSenator James Inhofe: Top Terrorist Threat to Planet Earth,â IMPACT Press,
January 2006 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/winter06/bestwinter06.html).
95. âRethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the
Left,â The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Volume 2, Issue #3, June 2006
(http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol2/vol2_no3_Best_rethinking_revolution.
htm).
96. (with Anthony Nocella) âClear-Cutting Green Activists: The FBI Escalates the War
on Dissent,â IMPACT Press, Issue #60, Spring 2006
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/spring06/bestspring06.html).
97. âIntroduction,â Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Issue 1, September 2006.
98. (with Anthony Nocella) âThe Genesis of the American Environmental Movement,â
Green Theory and Praxis: A Journal of Ecological Politics, Fall 2006
(http://greentheoryandpraxis.csufresno.edu/main.asp?goto=viewIssue.asp&iid=5#art32).
99. âDispatches from a Police State: Animal Rights in the Crosshairs of State
Repression,â The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, #1 (January
2007)
(http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no1_Best_animal_rights.htm).
100. âCrisis Culture and the Waning of Revolutionary Politics,â The International
Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, #2 (April 2007, abridged version)
(http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no2_Best_crisis_culture.htm).
101. âThe Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: New, Improved, and ACLU Approved,â The
International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, #3 (July 2007)
(http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no3_best.htm).
102. âThe Killing Fields of South Africa: Eco Wars, Species Apartheid, and Total
Liberation,â Fast Capitalism, Issue 2, Volume 2, 2007
(http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_2/home.html).
103. âThe Killing Fields of South Africa: Elephants in the Crosshairs of Extinction,â
Escape From America Magazine, September 2007
(http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/95/S_Africa.html).
104. âVaya Con Dios! A Quest for Vegan Food in Spain,â Escape From America
Magazine, October 2007 (http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/96/vegan.html).
105. âIntroductionâ to the Journal of Critical Animal Studies, October 2007.
106. âCritical Reflections on Charles Pattersonâs, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of
Animals and the Holocaust,â Journal of Critical Animal Studies, October 2007.
107. âCrisis Culture and the Waning of Revolutionary Politicsâ The International Journal
of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, #4 (October 2007)
(http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no4_Best_crisis_culture.htm#).
108. âThe Killing Fields of South Africa: Eco-Wars, Species Apartheid, and Total
Liberation,â Echidistante: Revista de cultura si stiinte, Number 2 (50), 2007, pp. 35-97.
109. âThinking Pluralistically: A Case for Direct Action,â Echidistante: Revista de
cultura si stiinte, Number 2 (50), 2007, pp. 125-130.
110. âIntroductionâ Journal of Critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2
(http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_7/introduc
tion.pdf)
111. (with Anthony J. Nocella, II, Richard Kahn, Carol Gigliotti, and Lisa Kemmerer)
âIntroducing Critical Animal Studies,â Journal of Critical Animal Studies, 2007
(http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Introducing-Critical-
Animal-Studies-2007.pdf).
112. (with Anthony Nocella and Peter McLaren), âRevolutionary Peacemaking,â Critical
Cultural Studies, 2008.
113. (with Anthony Nocella and Peter McLaren), âPeacemaking with Terrorists: Fighting
the âWar Against Terrorismâ with Critical Pedagogy,â The Journal for Critical Education
Policy Studies, Volume 5, Number 2, November 2007
(http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=110).
114. (with Anthony Nocella and Peter McLaren), âRevolutionary Peacemaking: Using a
Critical Pedagogy Approach for Peacemaking with `Terrorists,ââ (ed.) Mitchell
Rosenwald, One Paradigm, Many Worlds: Conflict Resolution. Cambridge: Cambridge
Scholars Press, 2008.
115. (with Douglas Kellner) "The Interactive Spectacle and the Digital Situationist," in
Exploration of Space, Technology and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. P.
Turner, S. Turner and E. Davenport (eds). Idea Group Publishing, 2008.
116. âAnimal Liberation and the Anarchist Tradition,â in Contemporary Anarchist
Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy (eds. Randall Amster,
Luis Fernandez, Anthony J. Nocella II, Abraham Deleon, and Deric Shannon).
Routledge, 2008.
117. âTeaching for the Global Communityâ in The Third Annual Conference on Labor,
Education and Emancipation (UTEP), CĂ©sar Rossatto, Aurolyn Luykx, and HermĂĄn
GarcĂa (eds.), SUNY Press, 2008.
118. âGlobalization and the Human Empire,â (ed. Samir Dasgupta) The Politics of
Globalization, Sage Press, 2008.
119. (with Douglas Kellner) âDebord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the
Spectacle,â Shift, September 2008 (http://www.zionedicoes.org/).
120. Introduction to âThe Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy,â special
issue of The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy
(http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/), 2008.
121. âFrom 'Dominion' to Domination: The Duplicity and Complicity of Matthew
Scully,â Political Affairs, September 2008
(http://www.politicalaffairs.net/from-dominion-to-domination-the-duplicity-and-
complicity-of-matthew-scully/)
122. âZoos and the End of the Nature,â Zoocheck.com, 2008.
(http://www.zoocheck.com/articles.html)
123. (with Douglas Kellner) âPolityka postmodernistyczna i bitwa o przyszlosc,â Dialogi
Polityczne, Number 11, Dec. 2008: 317-331.
124. âGenetic Engineering, Animal Exploitation, and the Challenge for Democracy,â
Leonardoâs Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals (ed. Carol Gigliotti), Springer
Press, 2009, pp. 3-19.
125. (with Anthony Nocella and Peter McLaren), âRevolutionary Peacemaking: Using a
Critical Pedagogy Approach for Peacemaking with `Terrorists,ââ in Curriculum and
Difference: Deeply Thinking the Critical Issues of Peace and Education (eds. Peter
Pericles Trifonas & Bryan Wright), 2009.
126. âH.G. Wells, Biotechnology, and Genetic Engineering: A Dystopic Vision,"
January 2009
(http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/hgwellsbiotechgenetic.pdf)
127. âBanned in the UK! How the Home Office `Protects the Public Goodââ April, 2009,
The American Chronicle
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/99049)
128. âMinding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism,â The
International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Volume 5, Number 2, Spring 2009
(http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol5/vol5_no2_best_minding_animals.htm).
129. (with Richard Kahn) âAnimal Rights Activists Are Not Terrorists,â in Animal
Experimentation, Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. (ed.). Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009.
130. âLos derechos de los animales y el progreso moral: la lucha por la evoluciĂłn
humana,â Rebelion, 2009 (http://rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=69854)
131. âThe Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal
Liberation into Higher Education,â Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume VII,
Issue 1, 2009, pp. 9-54 (http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/current.htm).
132. âThe Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal
Liberation into Higher Educationâ (revised). State of Nature, Summer 2009,
(http://www.stateofnature.org/theRiseOfCriticalAnimal.html).
133. "Chewing on the Rights vs. Welfare Debate: Do Corporate Reforms Delay Animal
Liberation?," in William Dudley (ed.), Animal Rights (Introducing Issues With Opposing
Viewpoints) Greenhaven Press, 2009.
134. (with Jason Miller) âPacifism or Animals: Which Do You Love More? A Critique of
Lee Hall, Friends of Animals, and the Franciombe Effect in the New Abolitionist
Movement,â February 7, 2009. DailyKos
(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/02/07/694693/-Pacifism-or-Animals-Which-Do-
You-Love-More-).
135. (With Jason Miller) âAverting the China Syndrome: Response to Our Critics and the
Devotees of Fundamentalist Pacifism,â February 7, 2009, Oped News
(http://www.opednews.com/articles/Averting-the-China-Syndrom-by-Jason-Miller-
090227-837.html).
136. âDialogue with Norm Phelps: Until There Are No Beings Whom We Still Define as
'Other'â January, 2009, Press Action (http://www.pressaction.com/news/C89).
137. âDispatches from a Police State: Animal Rights in the Crosshairs of State
Re4ression,â McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, 2009.
138. âManifesto for Radical Abolitionism: Total Liberation By Any Means Necessary,â
November 2009, AnimalLiberationFront.Com
(http://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Manifesto-TotalLib.htm).
139. (with Richard Kahn) "Trial By Fire: The SHAC7 and the Future of Democracy" No
Compromise, 2009
140. (with Douglas Kellner) âThe War Against the âAcademic Left: From Gross and
Levitt to Gitlin,â Academic Repression: Reflections on the Academic-Industrial Complex,
AK Press, 2010, pp. 122-142.
141. âFrom Man the Hunterâ to Homo X: Rethinking Human Natureâ January, 2010,
Guerilla News (http://guerrillanews.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/from-%E2%80%9Cman-
the-hunter%E2%80%9D-to-homo-x-rethinking-human-nature/).
142. âWar Against Animals: Time to Stop Playing Nice,â July 2010. The Scavenger
(http://www.thescavenger.net/animals/war-against-animals-time-to-stop-playing-nice-
animal-liberation-95623-365.html).
143. âShifting Tactics, Waves of Change: A Contextualist and Pluralist Approach to
Revolutionary Environmentalism,â Resistance, Spring 2010, pp. 41-45
144. "Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21st Century", in Elena Papanikolaou (editor),
Environment, Society, Ethics, Athens: Aiforia, 2010, (Proceedings of the 2nd
International Meeting for Environmental Ethics in Athens, 2010).
145."Welfarismo, diritti animali e liberazionismo: Uno sguardo sul movimento animalista
degli Stati Uniti,â LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, Anno 1, no.3, Invero
2010, pp. 42-51 (http://www.liberazioni.org/ultimonumero.html;
http://www.liberazioni.org/articoli/BestS-01.pdf).
146. âRethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation and the Future of the
Left,â Counterpunch, October 2010 (http://www.counterpunch.org/best10082010.html).
147. (with Douglas Kellner) âTechnocapitalism, Globalization, and the Infotainment
Society,â Media Environments (ed. Barry Vacker) University Readers Inc, October 2010,
pp. 367-386.
148. (with Douglas Kellner) âChallenges for the Third Millennium,â Media
Environments (ed. Barry Vacker) University Readers Inc., October 2010, pp. 509-520.
149. âInterspecies Alliance Politicsâ in Animal Advocates Coalition Reader
(http://www.slideshare.net/animalrightsadvocates/coalition-reader).
150. âZoos and the End of Nature,â Vegan Unity Ebook (http://www.veganunity.com/).
151. âMy Dog or Your Child: Ethical Dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value,â
Vegan Unity Ebook (http://www.veganunity.com/eBook/tabid/107/Default.aspx).
152. âAbolition or Spay and Neutering?âAnimal Friends Croatia, 2010
(http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/index.en.php?id=1281).
153. "Un Movimento per la Liberazioni Totale,â LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica
Antispecista, Anno 1, no.4, Marzo 2011, pp. 58-70 (http://www.liberazioni.org/archivio-
numeri.html; http://www.liberazioni.org/articoli/BestS-02.pdf.)
154. âModernity and Moral Progress,â About Animals (ed. Anna Lydaki). (Athens,
Greece: Psichogios Publications, 2011 (http://www.psichogios.gr/site/).
155. âThe New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery and Animal Liberation,â March 2011,
The Scavenger (http://www.thescavenger.net/animals/new-abolitionism-capitalism-
slavery-animal-liberation-89356-179.html).
156. âOur Task.â August 2011, AllCreatures.Org
(http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-best-task.html).
157. âIntroductionâ to Systems of Domination: The Global Industrial-Complex. (New
York: Lexington Books, 2011).
158. âAnimal Liberation and Moral Progress,â Animal Ethics, Past and Present
Perspectives (ed. Evangelos Protopapadakis) (Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2012), pp. 233-256.
159. âNotes from a Diary of Struggle: From Epiphanies to Aftermath,â January 6, 2012,
Occupy Essays (http://occupyessays.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/notes-from-a-diary-of-
struggle-from-epiphanies-to-aftermath-by-dr-steve-best/).
160. (with Doug Kellner) âRap, Black Rage, and Racial Difference,â Spring 2012,
Philosophy of Culture (www.PhilosophyofCulture.org).
161. (with Doug Kellner), âThe Postmodern Turn in Philosophy,â Spring 2012,
Philosophy of Culture (www.PhilosophyofCulture.org).
162. âThe Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal
Liberation into Higher Educationâ (revised), LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica
Antispecista, Spring 2012.
163. âMy Dog or Your Child? Ethical Dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value,â
Animal Ethics.
164. âPlanet of the Apes: Where Humans are Slaves,â Animal Ethics.
165. âMinding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism,â
LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, Summer, 2012.
166. âThe Paralysis of Pacifism: In Defense of Militant Direct Action,â How Far Can
One Go to Defend Animals? (editors David Chauvet and Enrique Utria; volume based on
my keynote speech and critical responses by major French academics).
167. âAnimal Liberation: Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics,â Fall 2012, Tierbefreiung
168. âHuman Identity Politics,â Postmodernism(e), Institutul European Press
(Spring 2012).
169. âCommonalities of Oppression and Alliance Politics,â Postmodernism(e) (Spring
2012).
170. âThe Emergence of Revolutionary Environmentalism,â Greening the Academy:
Environmental Studies in an Age of Ecopedagogy (The Netherlands: Sense Publishers),
(editors Anthony Nocella and Richard Kahn), 2012.
171. âRethinking the Pacifism/Violence Debates from a Contextualist Standpoint,â in
Essays on Applied Ethics (Perspectives (ed. Evangelos Protopapadakis).
III. Reviews, Review Essays, and Encyclopedia Entries
1. (with Belden Fields) "The Situationist International," in Dictionary of Neo-Marxism,
Greenwood Press, 1985.
2. Interview with Paul Ricoeur, Chicago Literary Review, Fall 1986.
3. Review of William Gibson's Technowar in Vietnam, Socialist Review, 1988/2.
Reprinted in âAnimal Liberation and Moral Progress,â Fall 1988.
4. Review of Arthur Krokerâs The Postmodern Scene, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol
5,#4 1988.
5. (with Douglas Kellner) Review of Paul Buhle's Marxism in the USA, Theory, Culture,
and Society, 1989.
6. Entry on Sidney Hook, The Encyclopedia of the American Left, 1990.
7. Entry on John Dewey, The Encyclopedia of the American Left, 1990.
8. Entry on Marxist Philosophy, The Encyclopedia of the American Left, 1990.
9. Review of Michael Phillipson's In Modernity's Wake, American Journal of Sociology,
1990.
10. Review of David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity, Left Green Notes, 1991.
11. Review of Douglas Kellner's Jean Baudrillard in Rethinking Marxism, 1991.
12. Entry on Jean Baudrillard, Dictionary of Contemporary Criticism and Critical Terms,
University of Toronto Press, 1993.
13. Review of Michel Maffelosi's The Shadow of Dionysus, Sociological Inquiry, 1993.
14. Review of Stephen Bronner's Socialism Unbound, New Political Science, Spring
1994.
15. Review of Richard Wolin's The Terms of Cultural Criticism, Cultural Critique,
Spring 1995.
16. Review of Anson Rabinbach's The Human Motor, Theory and Society, Fall 1995.
17. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, ed. Stephan K. White, in
American Political Science Review, Spring 1996.
18. "Theoretical Environments, Environmental Theories: New Perspectives in
Environmental Philosophy," review essay of Ecocritiques by Timothy Luke and
Primitives in the Wilderness by Peter van Wyck, Spring 1998, Terra Nova.
19. âVisions and Struggles,â review Essay of Which World? Scenario for the 21st
Century, by Allen Hammond, and Divided Planet, by Tom Athanasiou, in Terrain, Issue
No.4, Summer 1999. (http://www.terrain.org/reviews/4/best.htm)
20. Review of Is Science Multicultural?, by Sandra Harding, Theory and Society, Spring
2000, Volume 29, non 2, 253-261.
21. Review of Slaughterhouse, by Gail Eisnitz, Vegetarian Voice, Fall 1999.
22. Review of Ethics Into Action, by Peter Singer, Vegetarian Voice, 1999.
23. âScenario of Disasters, Visions of Liberation.â review essay of Which World?
Scenario for the 21st Century, by Allen Hammond, Divided Planet, by Tom Athanasiou,
and Toward an Inclusive Democracy, by Takis Fotopolous, Democracy and Nature, Vol.
6, No. 2. 253-265 (http://www.democracynature.org/dn/vol6/best_review_2.htm).
24. Review Essay, "Sandra Harding, Feminism, and Standpoint Theory Epistemology,"
Democracy and Nature, Vol. 7, No. 2, July 2001, 353-362.
25. Review of The New Earth Reader, Environmental Ethics, Winter, 2002, pp. 105-108.
26. Entry on âPaul Watson,â in Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Continuum
International, 2005.
27. âWeighing and Protecting Life: Beyond Speciesism, Welfarism, and Legalism:
Review essay of Joan Dunyaerâs Speciesism,â Organization and Environment, 19:2, June
2006.
28. âPostmodernism,â Encyclopedia Britannica, 2006.
29. Review essay of Charles Patterson, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and
the Holocaust, The Journal For Critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2, 2007
(http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_7/bestphel
ps.pdf).
30. Review essay of Norm Phelps, The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from
Pythagoras to PETA,, The Journal For Critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2, 2007
(http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_7/bestphel
ps.pdf). Republished in Political Media Review (www.politicalmediareview.org).
34. Reflections on Charles Pattersonâs Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and
the Holocaust, The Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2, 2007
(http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_7/bestpatt
erson.pdf).
35. Review essay of Norm Phelps, The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from
Pythagoras to PETA, Volume V, Issue 2, 2007
(http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_7/bestphel
ps.pdf);
36. Entry on âThe Cultural Turnâ for the Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Sociology online (ed. George Ritzer), 2008.
37. Entry on âvegetarianism/veganism,â The Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and
Philosophy (editors: J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman) (Macmillan Library
Reference, 2008).
38. Review essay of Charles Patterson, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and
the Holocaust, Explorations, 2008.
Media Interviews, Documentaries, and News Stories
I have done hundreds of print, radio, television, Internet, podcast interviews, and press -
conferences with local, nation, and international media. I have also appeared and been
featured in numerous documentaries. The topics I address are wide ranging, and have
included issues such as g//un control, free speech, immigration, bioethics, terrorism, state
repression, environmentalism, veganism, and animal rights. The national and
international media interviews include BBC News, CNN, The Guardian Independent, The
New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio,
The Alan Colmes Show, Alternet, The Utne Reader, The Chronicle of Higher Education,
and The Philosopherâs Magazine, as well as all types of media in two dozen countries,
including England, Greece, France, Germany, Spain, Romania, Russia, Croatia, Slovenia,
Poland, South Africa, and elsewhere. In addition, from 2003 to 2007, I aired my own bi-
weekly radio show on a local NPR affiliate (KTEP) and continue to receive inquiries and
invitations from a broad range of media throughout the world. I have done enough media
and film work, in fact, that I have a listing in the standard reference TV and film actors,
the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) (see: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078998/).
I. Film and TV Documentaries
About or Featured In
1) Dr. Steven Best: Direct Action and the Politics of Nature (Rattle the Cage Productions,
2003)
(http://www.rattlethecage.org/best2.htm).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHQK_lCEyVE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3viruZeFss&feature=related
2) âMoral Evolution & Animal Rightsâ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTXlwv8EiHI
3) âThe Power of the Animal Liberation Movement and Question of Tactics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG_aNnx6E4g&feature=related
4) âAnimal Rights vs. Anarchism, Marxism, Feminism, Postmodernismâ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3viruZeFss&feature=related
5) âAnimals,â (British TV Docudrama, 2005)
(http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=21).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkttVnVdjno&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLs-L-1s8cg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnYG4KdmfKQ&list=UU3-
zHbRk5sEBoAd_K3Vb5IQ&index=13&feature=plcp
âWeâre Talking About a Battlefieldâ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnYG4KdmfKQ&list=UU3-
zHbRk5sEBoAd_K3Vb5IQ&index=13&feature=plcp
6) âUS Activist Banned from UKâ (London TV, 2005)
(http://www.channel4.com/more4/news/news-opinion-feature.jsp?id=16).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYWgUmTxAIU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm8XyucVoFQ&feature=related (Spanish
translation)
7) âDr. Steven Best: Activist or Terrorist?â (7 minute Channel 4 story, London TV)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOuyKhiuvpo&feature=related)
8) âBehind the Mask,â 2006
(http://www.uncagedfilms.com/behind_the_mask.html).
9) âAnimal Rights Festivalâ (Moscow, Russia, June 2008)
10) âAnti-Vivisection and Anti-Speciesist Demoâ (Moscow, Russia, June 2008)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mp_bLUmffQ&feature=related)
11) Live Interview at noon, Moscow TV (Moscow, Russia, June 2008)
12) âOn Academic Repressionâ (March 4, 2010, Syracuse University, New York)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rw5t1ZjIJI&feature=related)
13) âState Repression & the Politics of Fear,â Rome 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUoaY_ddrhc&feature=related)
14) âDr. Steve Best Responds to Being Denied Entry by U.K. Police Stateâ (Luxemburg,
June 2011)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_086Vk4qCrI&feature=related)
15) âRadical Liberationism and the Need to Escalate Resistance Tactics,â Interview on
Croatia TV, June 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U985pkCtDM)
16) âTime to Change.â Featuring Dr. Steve Best (music video using soundbites from one
of my lectures, created by Blendeskil, a Spanish rock band).
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1EDFOM2sAM&feature=related)
17) âRadical Revolutionâ (with Blendeskil), December 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAHFsRMV5zo)
18) âDr. Steve Best and Blendeskil: The Radical Revolution Tour,â February 2012
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZX1P6jl-Kk)
19) Featured in hour-long episode on the environment, Project Earth 2012, New Zealand
prime time TV; forthcoming (http://projectearth2012.com/;
http://projectearth2012.com/dr-steven-best)
20) âSpeciesism: The Movie official trailerâ
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJYzia6KUbs&feature=player_embedded)
Appeared In
1) âAmericaâs #1 Terrorists,â 2006
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPtKOz2Zouo).
2) Penn & Teller, Bullshit, âPETA Episode,â 2004
3) âTestify: Eco-Defense and the Politics of Violence,â 2007
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlaOllYRQ8&mode=related&search).
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlaOllYRQ8&feature=related)
4) âAnimal Rights Revolutionâ
(http://laverabestia.org/play.php?vid=1694)
5) âUntil All Cages Are Emptyâ (March 2010)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJUKmKOb7n8&feature=mfu_in_order&list)
6) âFuck Patience,â part 6 of END CIV (documentary based on Derrick Jensenâs book,
Endgame [http://endciv.com/]), 2010
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kILjOo-O4LE)
7) Documentary on global anarchist movement, forthcoming, 2013
(http://www.indiegogo.com/Anarchism-A-Documentary)
8) Documentary on the SHAC7 trial and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (director
Denis Hennelly, forthcoming 2013)
9) âThe Superior Human?â Documentary on speciesism, producer Samuel McAnallen,
2012
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mqT82oGeax0)
10) Animal Rights documentary (producer Sabine Kuckleman, Germany, forthcoming,
2013)
II. Video Talks
1) Total Liberation Fest 2003 Parts 1-6, Erie Pennsylvania, 2005
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89XAPFW_qvY&feature=related)
2) âTerrorism or Freedom Fighters,â University of Utah, Salt Lake City, February 23,
2006
(http://www.uarc.com/)
3) âState Repression and the Patriot Act,â University of Utah, Salt Lake City, February
23, 2006
(http://www.uarc.com/)
4) âAnimal Rights Tactics: A Discussion,â Salt Lake City Community College and
University of Utah, February 23, 2006
(http://www.uarc.com/)
5) Keynote Speech, One Struggle Total Liberation Conference, Johannesburg, South
Africa, 2007
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heoZQq8Ckgw)
(http://www.animalrightsafrica.org/onestruggle/keynote.php)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W445StesYU&list=UU3-
zHbRk5sEBoAd_K3Vb5IQ&index=15&feature=plcp)
6) Animal Liberation Talk and Anti-Vivisection Demo, Moscow Russia, June 2008
(http://www.youtube.com/user/nightvgn#p/u/11/8wMcSRHKQM8)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mp_bLUmffQ)
7) Debate over Vivisection, University of Cork Ireland, October 5, 2009
(http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2289201
8) âTotal Liberation: Revolution in the 21st Century, Part 1,â July 2010 (2nd
International
Meeting on Environmental Ethics, University of Athens, Athens Greece)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTxxcgT0bjo)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vS2N71V2IY&feature=related)
9) âTotal Liberation: Revolution in the 21st Century, Part 2â
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXIcowRxrxU&feature=related)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTxxcgT0bjo)
(http://www.youtube.com/user/ECOSOLON#p/a/u/1/MZCH5yMinB0)
10) Solon for Synthesis and Ecological Civilization interview on âThe Animal
Standpoint,â Athens University, June 2010
(http://www.solon.org.gr/index.php/2008-07-15-19-24-32/63-2008-07-15-14-37-
13/1882-interview-steven-best.html)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pec0RXjKweg&feature=player_embedded#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZEHT-qcT2g) [with Greek subtitles]
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kbP4ULF5yQ)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pec0RXjKweg) [translated in Greek]
11) âEverything You Know About Homo sapiens is Wrong: The Revolutionary
Implications of Cognitive Ethology,â Out of the Box Lecture Series, University of
Maribor, Slovenia, September 2011
(http://videolectures.net/outofthebox_best_homosapiens/)
(http://www.youtube.com/w-atch?v=IivuK_8eLl8&feature=related)
12) âVeganism: The War We Canât Lose,â Saarbrucken, Germany, September 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq2D4JQzKOc&list=UU3-
zHbRk5sEBoAd_K3Vb5IQ&index=9&feature=plcp) [talk]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IivuK_8eLl8&feature=related [Q&A]
http://www.s-o-z.de/?p=51901
http://www.tvg-saar-vegan.de/brunch/brunch-mit-dr-steven-best/ [photos]
13) âOn Abolition and Activism,â Slovenia, July 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjydZuqZJyU&feature=related)
14) âBeyond Humanism: The Paradigm Shift of Animal Standpoint Theory,â Zagreb,
Croatia, July 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc7cl7FFQ14&list=UU3-
zHbRk5sEBoAd_K3Vb5IQ&index=8&feature=plcp)
III. Print Interviews
Interview with Milwaukee Indy Media, Fall 2004
(http://milwaukee.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/202662.shtml)
âThe Epiphanies of Dr. Steven Best,â Vegan Voice, No. 20, December 2004, 12-17.
(http://www.animal-lib.org.au/more_interviews/stevenbest/)
(http://www.drstevebest.org/TheEpiphaniesOf.htm)
âTaste of Leedsâ (2006)
âIgniting a Revolution,â Abolitionist Online, Issue 4 July 2006 (online at:
(http://www.abolitionist-online.com/interview-issue04_dr.steve.best.shtml, and:
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/best12092004/).
âEvolve or Die: Can We Shed our Moral Primitivism Before Itâs Too Late?â Thomas
Paineâs Corner, May 17, 2008 (http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=713).
Interview with the UTEP Prospector, February 2008
âThe Left and Animal Rights Activists Have Much in Common,â March 2009, The
Scavenger (http://www.thescavenger.net/animals/the-left-and-animal-rights-activists-
have-much-in-common-98246-441.html)
âEn samtale med professor og aktivist Steven Best,â Nettverk For Dyrs Frihet, 2009
(http://www.dyrsfrihet.no/zine/en-samtale-med-professor-og-aktivist-steven-best)
Live chat interview with Animal Rights Zone, 12th December 2009
(http://arzone.ning.com/).
"Il fronte per la liberazione animale? Una forma di sabotaggio etico,â Intervista di
Leonora Pigliucci a Steve Best, July 2010, Liberazione.it
(http://www.liberazione.it/rubrica-file/-Il-fronte-per-la-liberazione-animale--Una-forma-
di-sabotaggio-etico----LIBERAZIONE-IT.htm)
Interview with Change (Swedish animal rights magazine), September 2010
(http://www.djurensratt.se/portal/page/portal/tidningen/tidigare_nummer/djr0701.pdf)
Interview with Tierrechtsgruppe (Switzerland animal rights group), 2010
(http://www.tierrechtsgruppe-zh.ch/?p=1201#more-1201)
Interview with CNN News about the pathology of violence in the âTea Partyâ culture,
April 16, 2010
(http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/16/protests.protected.speech/index.html)
âThe Conflicted State of the US Animal Advocacy Movement,â LIBERAZIONI Rivista di
Critica Antispecista, Spring 2011
âWhatâs in Store for 2012? Activists Break Out Their Crystal Balls,â January 2012, The
Precarious
(http://theprecarious.com/content/whatâs-store-2012-activists-break-out-their-crystal-
balls)
âJeg er jo typen, der kaemper,â Vegetaren No. 1 Spring 2012
(https://drstevebest.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/vegaren-spring-2012.pdf)
Live chat with Italian activists, Rome, Italy, March 30, 2012
Interview with Tierbefreiung Magazine, Fall 2012.
Newspapers quoted in
âIdeas & Trends; Enabling, and Disabling, Ecoterrorists,â September 2003, The New
York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/weekinreview/ideas-trends-enabling-
and-disabling-ecoterrorists.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm )
âStepping Up the Attack on Green Activists,â September 2005, Alternet
(http://www.alternet.org/environment/26077)
âAnimal rights extremists have long evaded police,â August 05, 2008
(http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_10101608)
âRussia Now: Animal Rights activists demonstrate at Moscow court case,â October 9,
2009, The Moscow Times
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/russianow/6283990/Russia-Now-Animal-Rights-
activists-demonstrate-at-Moscow-court-case.html).
Newspaper and Magazine Articles About Me
âSpeaking for the Animals, or the Terrorists?,â Scott Smallwood, August 5, 2005, The
Chronicle of Higher Education
(http://chronicle.com/article/Speaking-for-the-Animals-or/30599).
Summary of one of my essays in Utne Reader, September 7, 2000
(http://www.utne.com/2000-09-01/AnimalRightsandWrongs.aspx).
âSpeaking for the Animals, or the Terrorists?â Scott Smallwood, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, August 5, 2005
(http://chronicle.com/article/Speaking-for-the-Animals-or/30599). [Since 2008, this
article on me has been included in annual editions of Violence and Terrorism,
Annual Editions Series, The McGraw-Hill Companies].
MacLeod, Donald. "Britain uses hate law to ban animal rights campaigner", The
Guardian, August 31, 2005.
Smallwood, Scott. "Britain Bans American Professor Who Speaks on Behalf of Animal
Liberation Front,"The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 29, 2005.
âProfessor of Violenceâ? The Philosopherâs Magazine, 1st Quarter, 2006.
âAbolition and Moral Progress,â Croatia Friends of Animals, June 18, 2008
(http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/index.en.php?id=952).
Featured in Athens, Greece newspaper article, Summer 2008
(http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=113,id=28683352).
âControversial UTEP professor Steve Best risks much in fight for animal rights,â El
Paso Times, February 2010
(http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_14355275)
(http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/1384340)
âOperation Get Fired: A Chronicle of the Academic Repression of Radical
Environmentalist and Animal Rights Advocate-Scholars,â Richard Kahn, in Academic
Repression: Reflections from the Academic-Industrial Complex. (AK Press, 2010)
(also available at:
http://antiochla.academia.edu/RichardKahn/Papers/76418/Operation_Get_Fired_A_Chro
nicle_of_the_Academic_Repression_of_Radical_Environmentalist_and_Animal_Rights_
Advocate-Scholars).
IV. Select Radio Interviews
Interview on National Public Radio on âRepresentations of the Security State in Popular
Film,â June 2000
1) Steven Best Discusses the Animal Rights vs. Welfare Debate, October 2002, Animal
Voices
(http://animalvoices.ca/2002/10/03/steven-best-discusses-the-animal-rights-vs-welfare-
debate/).
2) Sounds of Dissent, August 2004
(http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-
info&program_id=10522&nav=&%20).
3) Jack Lessenberry Show, âEqual Rights for Animals,â November 11, 2005
(http://jackshow.blogs.com/jack/2005/11/next_time_11705.html)
4) âBurning Houses and Moral Dilemmas,â interview on Alan Colmes National Radio
Show, 2006
5) âIgniting a Debate: Environmentalism, Religion, and a Call to Action,â September
2006, Animal Voices
(http://animalvoices.ca/2006/09/26/igniting-a-debate-environmentalism-religion-and-a-
call-to-action/).
6) Healing the Earth Radio, June 28, 2006
7) Resistance is Fertile, March, 2006
8) âHSUS and the Corporatization of Animal Advocacy,â Go Vegan Radio, September 5
2009
http://www.goveganradio.com/veg/1003/Listen_to_Past_Shows.htm
http://www.goveganradio.com:8484/shows/128kbps/go-vegan-with-bob-linden-2009-09-
05.mp3
9) âWhy Doesnât the Left Get Animal Rights?â Go Vegan Radio, September12, 2009
(http://www.goveganradio.com/veg/1003/Listen_to_Past_Shows.htm)
(http://www.goveganradio.com/veg/1436/2009-09-12.htm?action=review)
10) âA Dissection of Hunting: History, Culture, Ethics,â Animal Voices, October 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7GTXkimGM4&list=UU3-
zHbRk5sEBoAd_K3Vb5IQ&index=21&feature=plcp [Part I]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SlVyq1exFU&feature=related [Part 2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lYNjNL5egs&feature=related [Part 3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDeX-XpMyJ4&feature=related [Part 4]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tViFBGQHOIc&feature=related [Part 5]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m10_oCXCh8&feature=related [Part 6]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvGE_Nk9ehI&feature=related [Part 7]
11) Interview with KLRC, RadioActive!, KRCL Radio, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2010
(http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/krcl/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1631446/RadioActiv
e/RadioActive!.March.31.Animal.Action)
(http://www.peacefuluprising.org/friday-uprising-animal-action-20100331)
(Transcripts: http://vegina.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/steven-best-and-peter-young-on-
radio-active)
12) âThe Dialectics of Academic Repression,â March 4, 2010, Syracuse University
(âhttp://www.youtube.com/user/greencriminology#p/u/13/X0JRQBn4hoo).
13) University of Athens Radio station, June 2010
(http://www.radio98fm.org/index/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Item
id=108&lang=el (Click here: ÎÎÎ ÎÎÎ ÎÎŁ-ÎÎÎÎÎΥΩΣÎÎÎŁ)
(http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1190072) (transcript in
Greek)
14) âAnimal Rights, The Left, and The Need for Alliance Politics,â Wild Time Radio,
Dublin Ireland, July 5, 2010 (http://www.mediafire.com/?dyytozytnzy)
15) âWhy Negotiation is Over,â Wild Time Radio, Dublin, Ireland, July 5, 2010
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODBWO9mrwwg) (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZRTBAsc8MY&feature=related) (part 2)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTQlOcy1Hbw&feature=related) (part 3)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Hov5M-3vM&feature=related) (part 4)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyuEnTWYIjw&feature=related) (part 5)
16) âOn the Human and Animal Slavery Comparison,â Animals Today Radio Show,
August 1, 2010
(http://www.animalstodayradio.com/)
(http://omgnvideos.com/animalstodayradio/download/080110.html)
17) âAnti-Capitalism and Animal Rights: Bridging the Gapâ
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l27noSQTlnQ&feature=related) (Part 1)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br-yFFc5ZN8&feature=related) (Part 2)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulkkANUb7I4&feature=related) (Part 3)
(http://www.mediafire.com/?thwymwhymtn) (entire interview)
18) âOn the History and the Politics of Standpoint Theory,â World Vegan Radio,
Houston, July 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDYO9ogHjAk)
19) âWhat We Do to the Animals, We Do to Ourselves,â Radio Slovenia International,
July 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrwL4N9zRAE&feature=related)
20) âAn Informal Conversation with Dr. Steven Best,â Pure Imagination Live, December
2, 2011
(http://garynull.squarespace.com/pure-imagination/2011/12/2/pure-imagination-
120211.html)
21) âSocial and Academic Repression,â with Physics Professor, Dr. Denis Rancourt,
Train Radio, CHUO-FM 89.1. Ottawa. Canada, December 2011
(http://trainradio.blogspot.com/2011/12/activist-and-philosophy-professor-steve.html)
(http://www.archive.org/details/2011-12-08CHUO-TrainSteve-Best-Animal-Liberation)
22) âState Repression and the Anti-Vivisection Movement,â March, 2012, Pet Pardons
(http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pet-pardons-news-radio/2012/03/05/4--the-barbi-twins-
and-friends)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q6Zk5IKF40s)
Select Translations of My Work
My books, articles, and interviews have been translated into languages such as Japanese,
Chinese, Korean, Swedish, German, French, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Foreign Language Sites
Greece
http://antispe-gr.blogspot.com/search/label/Steve%20Best (numerous essays translated)
"Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21st Century", in Elena Papanikolaou (editor),
Environment, Society, Ethics, Athens: Aiforia, 2010, (Proceedings of the 2nd
International Meeting for Environmental Ethics in Athens, 2010). 166.
âAnimal Liberation and Moral Progress,â Animal Ethics, Past and Present Perspectives
(ed. Evangelos Protopapadakis) (Berlin: Logos Verlag, Summer, 2012)
Total Liberation: Rethinking Politics in the 21st Century. (collection of essays translated
into Greek; Eleftheros Typos: Athens, Greece, 2011).
Global Crisis and Global Resistance Movements (collection of essays translated into
Greek; Eleftheros Typos: Athens, Greece, 2011). (Echo Verlag, Germany, 2012)
Turkey
http://hayvanozgurluguhareketi.wordpress.com/dr-steve-best/ (numerous essays
translated)
Spanish
"La politica postmoderna la batallia por el futuro," Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Nuevo 5
(Jun1o 1998): pp. 5-29.
âRap, Revolta Negra E Diferenca Racial," Revista de Comunicaco e Linguagens, (30)
November 2001, pp. 201-224.
âLos derechos de los animales y el progreso moral: la lucha por la evoluciĂłn humana,â
Rebelion (http://rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=69854).
El Surgimiento de los Estudios CrĂticos Animalistas: De la teorĂa a la prĂĄctica y hacia una
educaciĂłn superior por la liberaciĂłn animal
Portuguese
âDebord and the Postmodern Turn, Shift, (www.zionedicoes.org)
âMy Dog or Your Child? Ethical dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value,â Animal
Ethics (Brazilian website)
âPlanet of The Apes: Where Humans are Slaves,â Animal Ethics.
Argentina
Accion Vegan
(http://www.accionvegan.org/index.php?id=434) (numerous essays translated)
âUna respuesta a los â veganos puristasâ y la âpolicĂa veganaâ que critica a los veganos
que tienen gatos no-veganosâ (http://www.defensavegana.com.ar/2011/09/una-respuesta-
a-los-veganos-puristas-y-la-policia-vegana-que-critica-a-los-veganos-que-tienen-gatos-
no-veganos-a-response-to-%e2%80%9cvegan-purists%e2%80%9d-and-
%e2%80%9cvegan-police/).
Italian
âThe Myth of Freedom of Speechâ
(http://www.drstevebest.org/IlMitoDella.htm).
"Il fronte per la liberazione animale? Una forma di sabotaggio etico,â Intervista di
Leonora Pigliucci a Steve Best, July 2010, Liberazione.it
(http://www.liberazione.it/rubrica-file/-Il-fronte-per-la-liberazione-animale--Una-forma-
di-sabotaggio-etico----LIBERAZIONE-IT.htm)
âWelfarismo, diritti animali e liberazionismo: Uno sguardo sul movimento animalista
negli Stati Uniti,â LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, Anno 1, no. 3, Winter
2010 (http://www.liberazioni.org/articoli/BestS-01.pdf).
"Un Movimento per la Liberazione Totale,â LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica
Antispecista, Anno 1, no.4, Marzo 2011, pp. 58-70
(http://www.liberazioni.org/articoli/BestS-02.pdf).
âThe Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation
into Higher Education,â LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, Anno 3, no. 8,
2012.
âMinding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism,â
LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, forthcoming, 2012.
German
http://www.bitebackgermany.net/ (numerous essays translated)
âManifest fĂŒr radikalen Abolitionismus: Totale Befreiung mit allen Mitteln, die nötig
sind,â February 2010, Bite Back (http://w160132-www.php5.dittdomene.no/manifest-
fuer-radikalen-abolitionismus-3)
â13 Wege sich fĂŒr Allianzpolitik und totale Befreiung einzusetzen,â February, 2010, Bite
Back (http://w160132-www.php5.dittdomene.no/13-wege-sich-fur-allianzpolitik-und-
totale-befreiung-einzusetzen-659)
âWenn du noch keine Angst gefĂŒhlt hast, hast du noch nicht angefangen zu kĂ€mpfen,â
March 2010, Bite Back (http://w160132-www.php5.dittdomene.no/wenn-du-noch-keine-
angst-gefuhlt-hast-hast-du-noch-nicht-angefangen-zu-kampfen-1049)
âDr. Steve Best: Staatliche Repression und die Politik der Angst,â August 2010, Bite
Back (http://w160132-www.php5.dittdomene.no/dr-steve-best-staatliche-repression-und-
die-politik-der-angst-4015)
Miscellaneous
(http://www.tvg-saar-vegan.de/literatur/dr-steven-best/).
France
"La vision apocalyptique de Philip K. Dick " X-Alta, no. 6 October 2002, pp. 101-112.
(with Douglas Kellner) âBiotechnologie, ethique, et politique du clonage,â in Le Clonage
Humain: En Arguments (eds. F. Haldeman et. al.) Geneve, 2005, pp. 285-371.
âThe Ethics of Defending Animals,â lead essay in volume based on proceedings of a
symposium at the Institute of Political Science Institute in Paris
(http://www.sciencespo.fr/en), forthcoming 2012.
Switzerland
âInterview mit Dr. Steve Best,â September 2010, Tierrechtsgruppe Zurich
(http://www.tierrechtsgruppe-zh.ch/wp-content/files/Interview_mit_Steve_Best.pdf)
âWarum unterstĂŒtzt du nicht die ALF?,â September 2009, Tierrechtsgruppe Zurich
(http://www.tierrechtsgruppe-zh.ch/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Warum-
unterst%C3%BCtzt-du-nicht-die-ALF.pdf)
Polish
âRobocop, czyli kryzys subiektywnoĆci,â Kwartalnik Filmowy ("Film Quarterly"), Nos.
31-32, 2000.
âDebord and the Society of the Cyberspectacle,â Kultura Popularna, #3 (9) 2004, 59-76.
âPolityka postmodernistyczna i bitwa o przyszlosc,â Dialogi Polityczne, Number 11,
Dec. 2008: 317-331.
Romanian
âThe Killing Fields of South Africa: Eco-Wars, Species Apartheid, and Total Liberation,â
Echidistante: Revista de cultura si stiinte, Number 2 (50), 2007, pp. 35-97.
âThinking Pluralistically: A Case for Direct Action,â Echidistante: Revista de cultura si
stiinte, Number 2 (50), 2007, pp. 125-130.
Chinese, Korean, Japanese
(with Douglas Kellner) Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations
Armenian
translation of:"Kevin Kelly's Complexity Theory: The Politics and Ideology of Self-
Organizing Systems," Organization and Environment, Vol. 12, No. 2, June 1999, pp.
141-162. (http://www.fatcow.com/edu/best-kelly-hy/), 2012.
Conferences, Symposia, and University and Community
Lectures
Spring, 1982
"Notes Toward a Non-Formalist Ethics," University of Illinois Philosophy Club (UIPC)
Fall, 1983
"Issues in the Base-Superstructure Problem," UIPC
Spring, 1983
"Marx's Dialectical Methodology in the Grundrisse" UIPC
Fall, 1984
"The Situationist International and the Critique of Consumer Society," "Joseph Beuys and the Theory of Social Sculpture," and "The Politicization of Art and the Aestheticization of Politics," lecture series at The Edge Art Gallery, Chicago
Spring, 1985
"Hermeneutics in the Early and Later Heidegger," University of Chicago Philosophy Club
Spring, 1987
"The Commodification of Reality and the Reality of Commodification: Critique of Jean
Baudrillard," Popular Culture Association, Montreal
Panel chair of "Theoretical Perspectives on Advertising and Consumer Culture," Popular
Culture Association, Montreal
Philosophical Perspectives on Popular Culture Symposium, Popular Culture Association,
Montreal
"Jean Baudrillard's Critique of Mass Media," Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago
Spring, 1988
"On Cultural Politics," symposium on "Art and Politics" at University of Texas, Austin
"Hermeneutics, Postmodernism, and Criticism," panel chair on postmodern culture,
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans
Symposium on postmodernism, Popular Culture Association, New Orleans
Fall 1988
"History and Modes of Causation," for the "Engines of History" conference, Texas A&M
Winter 1989
"Justice and Rights," Eastern APA, Atlanta Georgia
"Postmodernism and Politics," at the Open University of Chicago
Fall 1990
"Debord vs. Baudrillard," "Postmodern Science and Social Theory," Midwest Scholars
Meeting, Chicago
Respondent to paper on chaos theory, Midwest Scholars Meeting, Chicago
Spring 1992
"The Later Foucault," seminar presentation at the University of Kansas, sociology
department
Summer 1992
"The Ethical Basis of Vegetarianism," the Austin Vegetarian Society
Summer 1993
"Social Theory and Ecology," the Institute for Social Ecology, Vermont
Summer 1994
"Hegel's Theory of History," the Institute for Social Ecology, Vermont
Spring 1995
"Friendship with All Living Things," UTEP International Conference on Friendship
"Ethics as Metascience," 7th Annual Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC)
Biomedical Symposium: Ethics in Science, Research, and Education
Fall 1995
"A History of Environmentalism in the U.S.," UTEP ECO club
"Leopold and the Land Ethic," UTEP Environmental Policy Studies lecture series
Spring 1996
"Humans, Animals, and the Environment," UTEP Environmental Awareness Program
Summer 1996
"The Coming Crisis: Environmental Disaster, the Global Meat Culture, and Your
Health," the El Paso Vegetarian Society
Fall 1996
"Ethics and Medicine," the El Paso Alternative Health Network
"Ethics and Food Choices," the Las Cruces Vegetarian Society
Spring 1997
"Habermas' Critique of Modernity," the Postmodern Philosophy Seminar, University of
Texas, Austin
"The Postmodern Paradigm Shift," New Mexico State University, College of Business
and Management
"History, Narrative, and Utopian Vision," New Mexico State University, College of
Business and Management
Fall 1997
"Objectivity and Science," MARC symposium, UTEP
"Albert Schweitzer and the Boundless Circle of Compassion," El Paso Vegetarian
Society
Spring 1998
"Science and Public Responsibility," MARC group, UTEP
"Animal Rights and Animal Wrongs," public education forum, El Paso Vegetarian
Society
"Economics and World Hunger," Hands Up Food Distribution Society, El Paso
Fall 1998
"Foucault's Theory of Power," "Aldo Leopold's Concepts of Ecology and Economy,"
New Mexico State University
"Utopia and Historical Vision," Visiting Scholar Program at New Mexico State
University
"Animals, Machines, and the Crisis in Human Identity," Keynote Speech at the
International Conference on the Environment, El Paso and Juarez, Mexico
Spring 1999
"Pragmatism, Pedagogy, and Technoculture," the Organizational Behavior Teaching
Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Summer 1999
"Thinking Critically About Foucault," the American Sociological Association, Chicago,
Illinois.
"Kevin Kelly, Complexity Theory, and the New Scientific Ideology," the American
Business Association
"A Co-Evolutionary Approach to Science and Technology," the American Sociological
Association, Chicago
Winter 2000
"Philosophy Outside the Academy," the Radical Philosophy Association, Chicago
Summer 2001
"Critical Perspectives on Consumer Society," Keynote Speech to International Business
and Management Conference, Manchester, England
"The Theatre of Power and the Power of Theatre," European Groups for Organizational
Studies (EGOS) Conference, France
Fall 2001
"Science, Technology, and the Transformations of Nature," Cornell University, Ithaca
"Philosophy Outside the Academy," the Radical Philosophy Association, Chicago
"Science, Technology, and the Transformations of Nature," Cornell University, Ithica
"Dismantling the Welfare/Rights Opposition: Lessons from the Social Revolutionaries,"
3rd Annual United Poultry Conference, Monchipongo, Virginia
Spring 2002
"The Moral and Legal Status of Animals," National Student Animal Rights Conference,
Washington D.C.
"Animal Rights and Human Rights: Making the Connections," Dallas, Texas
"The Animal Welfare vs. Animal Rights Debate," Compassion for Animals Action
Symposium, Gainesville, Florida.
"Science, Technology, and Social Spectacle," Keynote Speech for the International
Academy of Business Disciplines, Los Angeles, CA.
Summer 2002
"Animal Victimhood," Animal Rights 2002 conference, Washington, D.C.
"Compassion into Action," Animal Rights 2002 conference, Washington, D.C.
"Engaging the Workplace," Animal Rights 2002 conference, Washington, D.C.
The Legal Standing of Animals," Animal Rights 2002 conference, Washington, D.C.
"Spirituality and Human Relations with Animals, Animal Rights 2002 conference,
Washington, D.C.
"Meet the Leaders and Authors of the Movement," Animal Rights 2002 conference,
Washington, D.C.
"Mourning the Loss of Companion Animals," Vigil speech for National Homeless
Animals' Day, El Paso, Texas.
Fall 2002
"The Ethics and Politics of Human Cloning," Keynote Speech given to the
"Biotechnology, Commerce, and Civil Society" conference in Essen, Germany
"The Future of Human Evolution," Houston Vegetarian Society
"The Implications of the Patriot Act," One Struggle Conference, Houston, Texas
"Toward an Alliance between Human and Animal Rights Activists," One Struggle
Conference, Houston, Texas
Spring 2003
"Reflections on the Human Cloning Debate," University of Florida, Orlando
"On the Moral Status of Animals," Liberation Now conference, University of California,
Berkeley, California
"Meet the Leaders and Authors of the Animal Rights Movement," panel discussion,
University of California, Berkeley, California
"The Debate over the Earth and Animal Liberation Movements," "Fresno State
University, California
âAldo Leopold and the Current Environmental Crisis, Fresno State University, California
"Environmentalism and Spirituality," Fresno State University, California
"Civil Liberties in the Era of the Patriot Act," Compassion for Animals Symposium,
Tampa, Florida
Summer 2003
âThe Impact of the Patriot Act on Civil Liberties,â Northwest Animal Rights Network,
Seattle
âThe Challenge of Animal Rights,â Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los
Angeles, CA.
âWelfare and/or Abolition?â Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los Angeles,
CA.
âEngaging Public Interest,â Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
âMeet the Leaders and Authors,â Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los Angeles,
CA.
âThe Attack on Constitutional Liberties,â Market Street Community Center, San
Francisco
Fall 2003
âDirect Action and Democracy,â University of Colorado, Denver
âContemporary Liberation Movements,â University of Colorado, Denver
Spring 2004
"Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic," Ozark Natural Foods, Fayetteville, AR,
âAnimal Rights and the Struggle for Moral Progress,â University of Arkansas
Featured Earth Day event speaker, Fayetteville, Arkansas
"Animal Rights and Conventional Ethics," University of Rhode Island
"The Impact of the Patriot Act on Civil Liberties," Stanford University Law School
"Animal Rights and the New Enlightenment," Stanford University Law School
âSinger V. Regan on âPersonhood,â Animal Liberation Student Conference, Syracuse
University, New York
Summer 2004
âDebates in the History of Non-Violence,â National Animal Rights Conference,
Washington DC
âNew Developments in Ethical Theory,â National Animal Rights Conference,
Washington DC
âMeet the Leaders of the Movement,â National Animal Rights Conference, Washington
DC
âCommonalities of Oppression,â National Animal Rights Conference, Washington DC
Fall 2004
âTheorizing Justice,â International Animal Rights 2004 conference, England
âThe Meaning of Education,â Issues in Pedagogy Conference, University of Texas, El
Paso
âThe Concept of âHistoryâ in Liberation Movements,â University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
âThe Crisis in Ethics: Moral Regression or Moral Evolution?â University of Ohio at
Miami
Winter 2004
âPhilosophical Issues in the History of Political Terrorism,â University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
Spring 2005
âThe New Abolitionism: Civil Rights, Animal Liberation, and Moral Progress,â
University of Iowa
Summer 2005
âPhilosophical and Political Fallacies in Standard Justifications for Slavery,â Kent,
England
âWhat is Moral Progress?â Dublin, Ireland
âEthics and the Myths of Vivisection,â Oxford University
Fall 2005
âGlobal Terrorism and the âClash of Civilizationsââ University of Connecticut
âThe Ethical and Scientific Fallacies of Transgenic Art,â UCLA
Spring 2006
âSocial Justice and Immigration Policy,â University of Texas, El Paso
âCivil Disobedience in the American Tradition,â Salt Lake City Community College
âThe Anti-Constitutional Measures of the USA PATRIOT Act,â Sam Wellerâs
Bookstore, Salt Lake City, Utah
âPolitical Tactics from a Pluralist Perspective,â University of Utah
âBiotechnology, Art, and the Aesthetic Exploitation of Animals,â UCLA
âCrisis and the Crossroads of History: The Need for a Revitalized Citizenry,â Humboldt
State University
âEnvironmentalism in the 21st Century,â Stanford University Law School
âWhy Social Movements Should Support Animal Rights,â Stanford University
âLinking Human and Animal Rights Movements,â Oslo Norway
âSocial Theory and Civil Disobedience,â Stockholm, Sweden
âBasic Issues in Contemporary Ethics,â Malmo, Sweden
Summer 2006
âThe Killing Fields: Eco-Wars and Species Apartheid in South Africa,â Ethics Society of
South Africa
âThe âWar on Terrorismâ and its Implications for Democracy Movements,â Institute for
Security Studies, Cape Town, South Africa
âAnimal Rights and Moral Progress,â University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa
âUnderstanding Revolutionary Environmentalism,â University of Johannesburg, South
Africa
Fall 2006
âImmigration, Globalization, and Social Justice,â Border Studies Forum, UTEP
âWhat the USA PATRIOT Act Means for Civil Liberties,â Erie, Pennsylvania
Spring 2007
âWhat Do We Mean By `Moral Progress?â Keynote Speech at Miami Dade Animal
Ethics Conference
âRedefining Citizenship in the Age of Environmental Crisisâ Emily Carr Institute,
Vancouver Canada
âOn Being `Human,ââ University of Maine, Orano
Fall 2007
âRethinking Rights from Ecofeminist, Anarchist, and Pragmatic Standpoints,â University
Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin
Spring 2008
âRemembering Bob Solomon: Poet, Stylist, Existentialist,â Memorial Conference for
Robert C. Solomon, University of Texas, Austin
âWhat is `Critical Animal Studiesâ?â Keynote speech at University of Billings, Montana
"Should Civil Society Fight for Animal Society?" Centre for Civil Society, University of
Durban, South Africa
âAlliance Politics in the 21st Century,â University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
âMoral Progress and the `Postmodern Condition,ââ University of Cape Town, South
Africa
Summer 2008
âContemporary Theories of Direct Democracy as Viewed Through the Greek Tradition,â
Athens, Greece
âIs Civilization Incompatible with `Progressâ?â University of Romania, Iasu
âAnimal Rights and the Fallacies of Common Objections,â University of Moscow
âTolstoyâs Legacy: Civil Disobedience in the Modern West,â Moscow Film Society
âAbolitionism, Then and Now: Comparing 19th
with 21st Century Movements to End
Slavery,â University of St. Petersburg
âOn the Complexities of Comparing the Human and Animal Holocaust,â Zagreb, Croatia
( http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/animalist/49en.html).
Fall 2008
âAcademic Repression in the Post-9/11 Era,â University of the Witwatersrand, South
Africa
âFrom Paulo Freire to Humane Education: Developments in Contemporary Theories of
Pedagogy,â University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
âBuilding Bridges: Shared Concerns of Contemporary Social Movements,â University of
Cape Town, South Africa
âReflections on Moral Progress Amidst a Time of Crisis,â University of Cape Town,
South Africa
Summer 2009
âReflections on the Relevance of the `Warâ Metaphor to Social Conflict,â Oslo, Norway
âSlavery and Abolitionism in Human and Animal Rights Movements Since the 19th
Century,â Oslo Norway
Fall 2009
âResolved: Against Vivisection,â the University College Cork Philosophical Society,
Ireland
Online Chat with Animal Rights Book
Spring 2010
âOn Critical Animal Studies,â video conference talk, Professor Carol Gigliotti, Emily
Carr University, Vancouver, BC
âAcademic Repression,â video interview with panel on my Academic Repression book,
Syracuse University
âFrom Civil Liberties to the New Security State,â Skidmore College, New York
âThe Rise of a Dominator Society,â Animal Ethics Conference, Utah Valley University
Summer 2010
âTotal Liberationâ 2nd
International Meeting for Environmental Ethics, Athens
Italy
âThe Animal Standpoint,â International Animal Rights Gathering, Italy
âThe Concept of `Progress,ââ International AR Gathering, Italy
âUnderstanding the Conflicts Between Radical Social and Animal Rights Traditions,â
Vegan Festival, Milan, Italy
âWhy Human Rights Entail Animal Rights,â Animal Rights Film Festival, Turin, Italy
âEverything You Thing About the âHumanâ is Wrong: The Revolutionary Implications
of Cognitive Ethology for Human Identity,â University of Bergamo, Italy
âThe Moral Foundations of Rights-Talk,â Zurich, Switzerland
Spring 2011
Skype presentation to Dr. Carol Gigliottiâs Art Seminar Course, Vancouver BC
Summer 2011
âThe Revolutionary Implications of Animal Standpoint Theory,â International Animal
Rights Conference, Luxembourg (http://www.ar-conference.com)
âAnimal Liberation and Moral Progress: The Struggle for Human Evolution,â
International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg
Panel Discussion: âVegan outreach and Direct Action,â International Animal Rights
Conference, Luxembourg
âThe Ethics of Defending Animals,â symposium, the Institute of Political Science
Institute in Paris (http://www.sciencespo.fr/en).
âRethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of
Resistance,â activist radio station, Canal Sud, Toulouse, France
(http://www.canalsud.net/)
âThe Origins, Philosophy, and Politics of the ALF,â Wroclaw, Poland
âAnimal Liberation and the Legacy of 19th Century Abolitionism,â Krakow, Poland
âCrisis and the Crossroads of History: The Need for a Radicalized Citizenry,â GdaĆsk,
Poland
Videotaped presentation and live Skype conference to London on the topic of free speech
Fall 2011
âVeganism: The War We Canât Lose,â Saarbrucken, Germany, September 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq2D4JQzKOc&list=UU3-
zHbRk5sEBoAd_K3Vb5IQ&index=9&feature=plcp) [talk]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IivuK_8eLl8&feature=related [Q&A
âEverything You Know About Homo sapiens is Wrong: The Revolutionary Implications
of Cognitive Ethology,â Out of the Box Lecture Series, University of Maribor, Slovenia
On Abolition and Activism,â Slovenia, July 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjydZuqZJyU&feature=related)
âBeyond Humanism: The Paradigm Shift of Animal Standpoint Theory,â Zagreb,
Croatia, July 2011
Fall 2012
Speaking Tour of Italy, September 1-15
âThinking Through the Pacifist-Violence Debate from a Pluralist, Pragmatist, and
Contextualist Approach,â International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg
http://www.ar-conference.com/
http://ar-conference.com/steve_best.php
On the Concept of (âTotalâ) `Warâ and Why It Applies to the Human Condition,â
International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg
âHow To Think About Human Nature,â University of Oporto, Portugal
âTotal Liberation Politics and Animal Party Structure,â University of Lisbon, Portugal
and the Party for Animals and Nature (PAN), Portugal
Radical Revolution Tour of Spain (with Spanish rock band, Blendeskil)
http://drstevebest.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/dr-steve-best-blendeskil-the-radical-
revolution-tour/