From Animal Mythologies to an Antibiologistic Animal Sociology.

This is an antibiologistic, nonhuman associational, species-subjectivist project that applies > subjective activism.

The project works as an online-publication by the Edition Farangis, founded by Farangis G. Yegane.

Editors are Tschördy Gita Yegane Arani and Lothar Yegane Arani Prenzel.

Our work is dedicated to our congenial nonhuman partners and all other nonhuman and human friends ... !

Readers

1. Edition Farangis: Animal Autonomy E-Reader (en) materials on animal sociology and a non-biologistic approach to an analysis of species-derogation, environmental ethics, and placing oneself as "human" within that map |
2. E-Reader: Gruppe Messel (ger) Textsammlung zu Tierautonomie, Tiersoziologie, Umweltethik und Menschseinsfragen |
3. Philozoe (ger / en, seperate issues) ein E-Blätterwald über Bildschaffung, Mythologien und Subjektsein / an e-journal on image creation, mythologies and experiencing subjectivity |
4. Simorghi (persian / multiling.) a philosophical journal on secular mysticism and iranian culture |
5. Tschördy, Azadeh und Saline (ger / multiling.) ein autoethnografisches Journal über unser (Subjekt-eines-Lebens-) Sein für Tierrechte |
6. Tierautonomie (ger / en) society, conflict and the anthropogenic dilemma ... eine Publikationsreihe die sich dem Thema: Gesellschaft, Konflikt und das anthopogene Dilemma widmet |
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Tierrechte und antibiologistische Tiersoziologie / Working towards an antibiologistic animal sociology

1. Roundabout / In neuen Territorien denken / Gruppe Messel ein Tierrechtsdiskurs vor dem Hintergund antibiologisischer Tiersoziologie und Seins-Pluralität |
2. Civilized Objects Animal Rights Ethics fundamentally and basically |
3. Tierrechtsethik.de unsere neue Seite über Tiersoziologie, Tierobjektifizierung und kontexulalisierte Umweltethik (Baumschutz) |
4. Overview ... ein Überblick unsere Projekte |

What's the title of this project all about?

Simorgh is a mythical bird, a mythical animal like we find so enormously many in probably every human culture/civilization. The common interpretation of mythical animals goes often into the direction of totemism, metaphorism, and symbolism, etc. If we take a new look at history from an Animal Rights angle we can however come to different definitions of that what those animal myths probably contained in terms of ethical standpoints towards nonhuman animals.

Such a different look will take us into deeper layers of folk tales and oral traditions, and foremostly it will take us deeper into the morals thereof. These type of materials are definitely not the easiest to untangle, but some 'golden threads' within moral cultural constructs can help.

We picked the bird Simorgh as our basically "random choice" for taking a representative for all such mythical embodiments of nonhumans in secular historical folklore. You can find background about the bird in our work about Iranian cuture. Our approach to the mythical bird Simorgh does not have a lot in common with the common, popular images of that bird as a figure torn from the substantiality of mythology, that usually fit animality into typical hegemonic anthropocentric perceptions of the nonhuman world.

As a starter > Here are a few short entries about Animal Portrayals in mythology.

From our point of view you can't really seperate > the ancient approaches to animality, expressed in mythologies, from a contemporary approach which would (ideally) consider the social i.e. the intersubjective plane - contrasted to the biologized approach - as a view on an equal level, as an approach on eye level. An combined approach can make the angle of access clear, and is aware of the ethical, moral, social and overall implications in the mutual encounter, also it can be analyzed and discussed on all levels. We can access other cultures as different as nonhumanity only in careful approximations. In human cultures, in which the myth played a big role for narrating views that one would hold of the world, the narratives where embedded in pictoresque image lanaguage full of important connotations at their time. These days we need to get the full contextualities back into our way of having an exchange with animality and adressing it sensibly. We need to see the social level and recognise the limitless state of freedom as part of nonhuman existence, in ways that are as comprehensive as possible.