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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 Institute’s Guide to Experts on Animal Issues (2006).
Voted one of the “25 Most Fascinating Vegetarians” by VegNews Magazine (May 2007).
Listed as “Notable Alumnus” of College of Du Page
Listed as “Notable Professor” at UTEP (Wikipedia)
Bestowed with Honorary life membership to the Hellenic Society for Ethics (2011)
Graduated UTEP’s 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 – 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 Cyrano’s 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 –2009 -- 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 “Institute for Critical Animal Studies”
(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 “Violence”
(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. “Reading Baudrillard Critically,” The Chicago Literary Review, Fall 1985.
2. “The Existential Politics of Yukio Mishima,” The Chicago Literary Review, Spring
1986.
3. “Antonio Gramsci’s Concept of `Hegemony’ and the Politics of Everyday Life,” The
Chicago Literary Review, Spring 1986.
4. “Paul Ricoeur: Rupturing the Narrative,” 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. “Rap, 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. “Gandhi: On the Path to Vegetarianism,” January 2000, Animal Rights Online
Journal
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000123-gandhi.html)
30. “The 5 C’s: Principles of a Vegan Life,” April, 2000, Animal Rights Online Journal
http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000405-the.html
31. “Engineering the Brave New World: Reality Ain't What It Used To Be,” 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. “Farmaggedon, Frankenfoods, and the FDA: The Dangers of Genetically Modified
Food,” June 2000, Animal Rights Online Journal
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000607-best.html)
35. “Human Identity Politics: Homo Indeterminus,” 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. “Where Humans Survive and Animals Die,” August 2000, Animal Rights Online
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000823-where.html)
38. “Robocop, czyli kryzys subiektywności,” Kwartalnik Filmowy ("Film Quarterly"),
Nos. 31-32, 2000.
39. (with Douglas Kellner), “Postmodern Politics and the Battle for the Future,” in
Contemporary Political Thinking, B.N. Ray (ed.) (New Delhi: Kanishka Publications,
2000).
(http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/postmodernpolitics.pdf)
40. “Clones R’ Us: The Age of Human Cloning Has Arrived,” 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) “Rap, 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. “Cows, Capitalism, and Cover-Ups: The Politics and Economics of Mad Cow
Disease,” 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. “Break the Cycle,” Animal Rights Online Journal, September 2001
http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20010923-bre.html
46. “Scientific Literacy, Biotechnology, and Animal Rights,” 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. “Common 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. “The Fresno Frenzy: Invasion of the Animal and Earth Liberation Fronts,” 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,” The
Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, Vol. 25, Nr. 2 (April-June 2003): pp.
75-93.
60. “Son of the Patriot Act and the Revenge on Democracy,” 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. “The History and Philosophy of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies,” 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,” 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. “Barbarism in the Afternoon: Bullfighting, Violence, and the Crisis in Human
Identity,” IMPACT Press Issue #46, August-September, 2003
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/augsep03/best8903.html).
65. (with Douglas Kellner) “Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the
Spectacle,” Parole: quaderni d’arte e di epistemologia, Fall 2003 (online at:
http://www.parol.it/articles/kelner3.htm).
66. “The Challenge of Animal Rights,” January, 2004, Animal Rights Online
(http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20040111-challenge.html)
67. Thinking Pluralistically: A Case for Direct Action,” Satya, April 2004, pp. 21-22
(http://www.satyamag.com/apr04/best.html).
68. “Animal Rights and the New Enlightenment,” IMPACT Press, #49, Feb-March 2004.
69. “From Earth Day to Ecological Society,” IMPACT Press, Issue #50, April-May 2004
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/aprmay04/best4504.html).
70. (with Douglas Kellner) “Debord and the Society of the Cyberspectacle,” 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. “Introduction,” Journal of Critical Animal Studies, Volume II, Issue 1
(http://www.cala-online.org/Journal/Issue2/Intro.htm).
73. (with Richard Kahn) “Trial By Fire: The SHAC7 and the Future of Democracy,”
IMPACT Press #52, August-September 2004
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/augsep04/shac78904.html).
74. “Behind the Mask: Understanding the Animal Liberation Front,” 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. “Defining Terrorism,” in Terrorists of Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the
Liberation of Animals, Lantern Books, 2004.
77. “Introduction,” 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) “Trial By Fire: The SHAC7, Globalization, and the Future of
Democracy,” Journal for Critical Animal Studies¸ Volume II, Issue II (2004)
(http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/trialbyfire.pdf).
80. “Banned in the UK: The Home Office Says `Stay Home!’ to US Animal Rights
Activist,” IMPACT Press, Issue #54, December 2004-January 2005
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/decjan05/best120105.html).
81. “The Political Semantics of `Terrorism,’” in A Peacemaker’s Guide for Building
Peace with a Revolutionary Group, Anthony J. Nocella, 2005.
82. “The New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery, and Animal Rights,” IMPACT Press,
Issue #55, Feb-March 2005
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/febmar05/best2305.html).
83. “Philosophizing with a Hammer,” Earth First!, March-April, 2005, p. 30.
84. “Killing the Messenger: Ward Churchill’s Sins Against the Empire,” IMPACT Press,
Issue #56 April-May 2005
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/spring05/bestspring05.html).
85. “The Myth of Free Speech,” Satya, June/July 2005
(http://www.satyamag.com/jun05/best.html).
86. (with Douglas Kellner) “Biotechnologie, ethique, et politique du clonage,” in Le
Clonage Humain: En Arguments, eds. F. Haldeman et. al., Geneve, 2005, pp. 285-371.
87. “Showtrials and Scarecrows: `Ecoterrorism’ and the War on Dissent,” IMPACT Press
#57, Summer 2005
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/summer05/bestsummer05.html).
88. “My Dog or Your Child? Ethical Dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value,”
IMPACT Press, Issue #57, Fall 2005
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/fall05/bestfall05.html).
89. “Introduction,” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume II, Issue 3, October
2005.
90. “The Son of Patriot Act and the Revenge on Democracy,” Tamara 2005.
91. “Genetic Engineering, Animal Exploitation, and the Challenge for Democracy,”
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. “Progress or Perish: The Need for Revolutionary Environmentalism,” 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. “Senator James Inhofe: Top Terrorist Threat to Planet Earth,” IMPACT Press,
January 2006 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/winter06/bestwinter06.html).
95. “Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the
Left,” 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) “Clear-Cutting Green Activists: The FBI Escalates the War
on Dissent,” IMPACT Press, Issue #60, Spring 2006
(http://www.impactpress.com/articles/spring06/bestspring06.html).
97. “Introduction,” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Issue 1, September 2006.
98. (with Anthony Nocella) “The Genesis of the American Environmental Movement,”
Green Theory and Praxis: A Journal of Ecological Politics, Fall 2006
(http://greentheoryandpraxis.csufresno.edu/main.asp?goto=viewIssue.asp&iid=5#art32).
99. “Dispatches from a Police State: Animal Rights in the Crosshairs of State
Repression,” The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, #1 (January
2007)
(http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no1_Best_animal_rights.htm).
100. “Crisis Culture and the Waning of Revolutionary Politics,” 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. “The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: New, Improved, and ACLU Approved,” The
International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, #3 (July 2007)
(http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no3_best.htm).
102. “The Killing Fields of South Africa: Eco Wars, Species Apartheid, and Total
Liberation,” Fast Capitalism, Issue 2, Volume 2, 2007
(http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_2/home.html).
103. “The Killing Fields of South Africa: Elephants in the Crosshairs of Extinction,”
Escape From America Magazine, September 2007
(http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/95/S_Africa.html).
104. “Vaya Con Dios! A Quest for Vegan Food in Spain,” Escape From America
Magazine, October 2007 (http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/96/vegan.html).
105. “Introduction” to the Journal of Critical Animal Studies, October 2007.
106. “Critical Reflections on Charles Patterson’s, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of
Animals and the Holocaust,” Journal of Critical Animal Studies, October 2007.
107. “Crisis Culture and the Waning of Revolutionary Politics” The International Journal
of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, #4 (October 2007)
(http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no4_Best_crisis_culture.htm#).
108. “The Killing Fields of South Africa: Eco-Wars, Species Apartheid, and Total
Liberation,” Echidistante: Revista de cultura si stiinte, Number 2 (50), 2007, pp. 35-97.
109. “Thinking Pluralistically: A Case for Direct Action,” Echidistante: Revista de
cultura si stiinte, Number 2 (50), 2007, pp. 125-130.
110. “Introduction” 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)
“Introducing Critical Animal Studies,” 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), “Revolutionary Peacemaking,” Critical
Cultural Studies, 2008.
113. (with Anthony Nocella and Peter McLaren), “Peacemaking with Terrorists: Fighting
the “War Against Terrorism’ with Critical Pedagogy,” 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), “Revolutionary Peacemaking: Using a
Critical Pedagogy Approach for Peacemaking with `Terrorists,’” (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. “Animal Liberation and the Anarchist Tradition,” 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. “Teaching for the Global Community” in The Third Annual Conference on Labor,
Education and Emancipation (UTEP), César Rossatto, Aurolyn Luykx, and Hermán
García (eds.), SUNY Press, 2008.
118. “Globalization and the Human Empire,” (ed. Samir Dasgupta) The Politics of
Globalization, Sage Press, 2008.
119. (with Douglas Kellner) “Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the
Spectacle,” Shift, September 2008 (http://www.zionedicoes.org/).
120. Introduction to “The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy,” special
issue of The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy
(http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/), 2008.
121. “From 'Dominion' to Domination: The Duplicity and Complicity of Matthew
Scully,” Political Affairs, September 2008
(http://www.politicalaffairs.net/from-dominion-to-domination-the-duplicity-and-
complicity-of-matthew-scully/)
122. “Zoos and the End of the Nature,” Zoocheck.com, 2008.
(http://www.zoocheck.com/articles.html)
123. (with Douglas Kellner) “Polityka postmodernistyczna i bitwa o przyszlosc,” Dialogi
Polityczne, Number 11, Dec. 2008: 317-331.
124. “Genetic Engineering, Animal Exploitation, and the Challenge for Democracy,”
Leonardo’s Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals (ed. Carol Gigliotti), Springer
Press, 2009, pp. 3-19.
125. (with Anthony Nocella and Peter McLaren), “Revolutionary Peacemaking: Using a
Critical Pedagogy Approach for Peacemaking with `Terrorists,’” in Curriculum and
Difference: Deeply Thinking the Critical Issues of Peace and Education (eds. Peter
Pericles Trifonas & Bryan Wright), 2009.
126. “H.G. Wells, Biotechnology, and Genetic Engineering: A Dystopic Vision,"
January 2009
(http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/hgwellsbiotechgenetic.pdf)
127. “Banned in the UK! How the Home Office `Protects the Public Good’” April, 2009,
The American Chronicle
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/99049)
128. “Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism,” 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) “Animal Rights Activists Are Not Terrorists,” in Animal
Experimentation, Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. (ed.). Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009.
130. “Los derechos de los animales y el progreso moral: la lucha por la evolución
humana,” Rebelion, 2009 (http://rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=69854)
131. “The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal
Liberation into Higher Education,” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume VII,
Issue 1, 2009, pp. 9-54 (http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/current.htm).
132. “The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal
Liberation into Higher Education” (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) “Pacifism or Animals: Which Do You Love More? A Critique of
Lee Hall, Friends of Animals, and the Franciombe Effect in the New Abolitionist
Movement,” 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) “Averting the China Syndrome: Response to Our Critics and the
Devotees of Fundamentalist Pacifism,” February 7, 2009, Oped News
(http://www.opednews.com/articles/Averting-the-China-Syndrom-by-Jason-Miller-
090227-837.html).
136. “Dialogue with Norm Phelps: Until There Are No Beings Whom We Still Define as
'Other'” January, 2009, Press Action (http://www.pressaction.com/news/C89).
137. “Dispatches from a Police State: Animal Rights in the Crosshairs of State
Re4ression,” McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, 2009.
138. “Manifesto for Radical Abolitionism: Total Liberation By Any Means Necessary,”
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) “The War Against the ‘Academic Left: From Gross and
Levitt to Gitlin,” Academic Repression: Reflections on the Academic-Industrial Complex,
AK Press, 2010, pp. 122-142.
141. “From Man the Hunter” to Homo X: Rethinking Human Nature” 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. “War Against Animals: Time to Stop Playing Nice,” July 2010. The Scavenger
(http://www.thescavenger.net/animals/war-against-animals-time-to-stop-playing-nice-
animal-liberation-95623-365.html).
143. “Shifting Tactics, Waves of Change: A Contextualist and Pluralist Approach to
Revolutionary Environmentalism,” 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,” 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. “Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation and the Future of the
Left,” Counterpunch, October 2010 (http://www.counterpunch.org/best10082010.html).
147. (with Douglas Kellner) “Technocapitalism, Globalization, and the Infotainment
Society,” Media Environments (ed. Barry Vacker) University Readers Inc, October 2010,
pp. 367-386.
148. (with Douglas Kellner) “Challenges for the Third Millennium,” Media
Environments (ed. Barry Vacker) University Readers Inc., October 2010, pp. 509-520.
149. “Interspecies Alliance Politics” in Animal Advocates Coalition Reader
(http://www.slideshare.net/animalrightsadvocates/coalition-reader).
150. “Zoos and the End of Nature,” Vegan Unity Ebook (http://www.veganunity.com/).
151. “My Dog or Your Child: Ethical Dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value,”
Vegan Unity Ebook (http://www.veganunity.com/eBook/tabid/107/Default.aspx).
152. “Abolition or Spay and Neutering?”Animal Friends Croatia, 2010
(http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/index.en.php?id=1281).
153. "Un Movimento per la Liberazioni Totale,” 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. “Modernity and Moral Progress,” About Animals (ed. Anna Lydaki). (Athens,
Greece: Psichogios Publications, 2011 (http://www.psichogios.gr/site/).
155. “The New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery and Animal Liberation,” March 2011,
The Scavenger (http://www.thescavenger.net/animals/new-abolitionism-capitalism-
slavery-animal-liberation-89356-179.html).
156. “Our Task.” August 2011, AllCreatures.Org
(http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-best-task.html).
157. “Introduction” to Systems of Domination: The Global Industrial-Complex. (New
York: Lexington Books, 2011).
158. “Animal Liberation and Moral Progress,” Animal Ethics, Past and Present
Perspectives (ed. Evangelos Protopapadakis) (Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2012), pp. 233-256.
159. “Notes from a Diary of Struggle: From Epiphanies to Aftermath,” 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) “Rap, Black Rage, and Racial Difference,” Spring 2012,
Philosophy of Culture (www.PhilosophyofCulture.org).
161. (with Doug Kellner), “The Postmodern Turn in Philosophy,” Spring 2012,
Philosophy of Culture (www.PhilosophyofCulture.org).
162. “The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal
Liberation into Higher Education” (revised), LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica
Antispecista, Spring 2012.
163. “My Dog or Your Child? Ethical Dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value,”
Animal Ethics.
164. “Planet of the Apes: Where Humans are Slaves,” Animal Ethics.
165. “Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism,”
LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, Summer, 2012.
166. “The Paralysis of Pacifism: In Defense of Militant Direct Action,” 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. “Animal Liberation: Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics,” Fall 2012, Tierbefreiung
168. “Human Identity Politics,” Postmodernism(e), Institutul European Press
(Spring 2012).
169. “Commonalities of Oppression and Alliance Politics,” Postmodernism(e) (Spring
2012).
170. “The Emergence of Revolutionary Environmentalism,” Greening the Academy:
Environmental Studies in an Age of Ecopedagogy (The Netherlands: Sense Publishers),
(editors Anthony Nocella and Richard Kahn), 2012.
171. “Rethinking the Pacifism/Violence Debates from a Contextualist Standpoint,” 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 “Animal Liberation and Moral Progress,” Fall 1988.
4. Review of Arthur Kroker’s 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. “Visions and Struggles,” 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. “Scenario of Disasters, Visions of Liberation.” 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 “Paul Watson,” in Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Continuum
International, 2005.
27. “Weighing and Protecting Life: Beyond Speciesism, Welfarism, and Legalism:
Review essay of Joan Dunyaer’s Speciesism,” Organization and Environment, 19:2, June
2006.
28. “Postmodernism,” 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 Patterson’s 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 “The Cultural Turn” for the Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Sociology online (ed. George Ritzer), 2008.
37. Entry on “vegetarianism/veganism,” 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 Philosopher’s 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) “Moral Evolution & Animal Rights”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTXlwv8EiHI
3) “The Power of the Animal Liberation Movement and Question of Tactics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG_aNnx6E4g&feature=related
4) “Animal Rights vs. Anarchism, Marxism, Feminism, Postmodernism”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3viruZeFss&feature=related
5) “Animals,” (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
“We’re Talking About a Battlefield”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnYG4KdmfKQ&list=UU3-
zHbRk5sEBoAd_K3Vb5IQ&index=13&feature=plcp
6) “US Activist Banned from UK” (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) “Dr. Steven Best: Activist or Terrorist?” (7 minute Channel 4 story, London TV)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOuyKhiuvpo&feature=related)
8) “Behind the Mask,” 2006
(http://www.uncagedfilms.com/behind_the_mask.html).
9) “Animal Rights Festival” (Moscow, Russia, June 2008)
10) “Anti-Vivisection and Anti-Speciesist Demo” (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) “On Academic Repression” (March 4, 2010, Syracuse University, New York)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rw5t1ZjIJI&feature=related)
13) “State Repression & the Politics of Fear,” Rome 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUoaY_ddrhc&feature=related)
14) “Dr. Steve Best Responds to Being Denied Entry by U.K. Police State” (Luxemburg,
June 2011)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_086Vk4qCrI&feature=related)
15) “Radical Liberationism and the Need to Escalate Resistance Tactics,” Interview on
Croatia TV, June 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U985pkCtDM)
16) “Time to Change.” 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) “Radical Revolution” (with Blendeskil), December 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAHFsRMV5zo)
18) “Dr. Steve Best and Blendeskil: The Radical Revolution Tour,” 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) “Speciesism: The Movie official trailer”
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJYzia6KUbs&feature=player_embedded)
Appeared In
1) “America’s #1 Terrorists,” 2006
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPtKOz2Zouo).
2) Penn & Teller, Bullshit, “PETA Episode,” 2004
3) “Testify: Eco-Defense and the Politics of Violence,” 2007
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlaOllYRQ8&mode=related&search).
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlaOllYRQ8&feature=related)
4) “Animal Rights Revolution”
(http://laverabestia.org/play.php?vid=1694)
5) “Until All Cages Are Empty” (March 2010)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJUKmKOb7n8&feature=mfu_in_order&list)
6) “Fuck Patience,” part 6 of END CIV (documentary based on Derrick Jensen’s 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) “The Superior Human?” 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) “Terrorism or Freedom Fighters,” University of Utah, Salt Lake City, February 23,
2006
(http://www.uarc.com/)
3) “State Repression and the Patriot Act,” University of Utah, Salt Lake City, February
23, 2006
(http://www.uarc.com/)
4) “Animal Rights Tactics: A Discussion,” 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) “Total Liberation: Revolution in the 21st Century, Part 1,” 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) “Total Liberation: Revolution in the 21st Century, Part 2”
(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 “The Animal
Standpoint,” 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) “Everything You Know About Homo sapiens is Wrong: The Revolutionary
Implications of Cognitive Ethology,” 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) “Veganism: The War We Can’t Lose,” 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) “On Abolition and Activism,” Slovenia, July 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjydZuqZJyU&feature=related)
14) “Beyond Humanism: The Paradigm Shift of Animal Standpoint Theory,” 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)
“The Epiphanies of Dr. Steven Best,” Vegan Voice, No. 20, December 2004, 12-17.
(http://www.animal-lib.org.au/more_interviews/stevenbest/)
(http://www.drstevebest.org/TheEpiphaniesOf.htm)
“Taste of Leeds” (2006)
“Igniting a Revolution,” 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/).
“Evolve or Die: Can We Shed our Moral Primitivism Before It’s Too Late?” Thomas
Paine’s Corner, May 17, 2008 (http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=713).
Interview with the UTEP Prospector, February 2008
“The Left and Animal Rights Activists Have Much in Common,” March 2009, The
Scavenger (http://www.thescavenger.net/animals/the-left-and-animal-rights-activists-
have-much-in-common-98246-441.html)
“En samtale med professor og aktivist Steven Best,” 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,” 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 “Tea Party” culture,
April 16, 2010
(http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/16/protests.protected.speech/index.html)
“The Conflicted State of the US Animal Advocacy Movement,” LIBERAZIONI Rivista di
Critica Antispecista, Spring 2011
“What’s in Store for 2012? Activists Break Out Their Crystal Balls,” January 2012, The
Precarious
(http://theprecarious.com/content/what’s-store-2012-activists-break-out-their-crystal-
balls)
“Jeg er jo typen, der kaemper,” 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
“Ideas & Trends; Enabling, and Disabling, Ecoterrorists,” 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 )
“Stepping Up the Attack on Green Activists,” September 2005, Alternet
(http://www.alternet.org/environment/26077)
“Animal rights extremists have long evaded police,” August 05, 2008
(http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_10101608)
“Russia Now: Animal Rights activists demonstrate at Moscow court case,” 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
“Speaking for the Animals, or the Terrorists?,” 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).
“Speaking for the Animals, or the Terrorists?” 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.
“Professor of Violence”? The Philosopher’s Magazine, 1st Quarter, 2006.
“Abolition and Moral Progress,” 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).
“Controversial UTEP professor Steve Best risks much in fight for animal rights,” El
Paso Times, February 2010
(http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_14355275)
(http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/1384340)
“Operation Get Fired: A Chronicle of the Academic Repression of Radical
Environmentalist and Animal Rights Advocate-Scholars,” 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 “Representations of the Security State in Popular
Film,” 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, “Equal Rights for Animals,” November 11, 2005
(http://jackshow.blogs.com/jack/2005/11/next_time_11705.html)
4) “Burning Houses and Moral Dilemmas,” interview on Alan Colmes National Radio
Show, 2006
5) “Igniting a Debate: Environmentalism, Religion, and a Call to Action,” 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) “HSUS and the Corporatization of Animal Advocacy,” 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) “Why Doesn’t the Left Get Animal Rights?” 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) “A Dissection of Hunting: History, Culture, Ethics,” 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) “The Dialectics of Academic Repression,” March 4, 2010, Syracuse University
(“http://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: ΕΚΠΟΜΠΕΣ-ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΣΕΙΣ)
(http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1190072) (transcript in
Greek)
14) “Animal Rights, The Left, and The Need for Alliance Politics,” Wild Time Radio,
Dublin Ireland, July 5, 2010 (http://www.mediafire.com/?dyytozytnzy)
15) “Why Negotiation is Over,” 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) “On the Human and Animal Slavery Comparison,” Animals Today Radio Show,
August 1, 2010
(http://www.animalstodayradio.com/)
(http://omgnvideos.com/animalstodayradio/download/080110.html)
17) “Anti-Capitalism and Animal Rights: Bridging the Gap”
(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) “On the History and the Politics of Standpoint Theory,” World Vegan Radio,
Houston, July 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDYO9ogHjAk)
19) “What We Do to the Animals, We Do to Ourselves,” Radio Slovenia International,
July 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrwL4N9zRAE&feature=related)
20) “An Informal Conversation with Dr. Steven Best,” Pure Imagination Live, December
2, 2011
(http://garynull.squarespace.com/pure-imagination/2011/12/2/pure-imagination-
120211.html)
21) “Social and Academic Repression,” 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) “State Repression and the Anti-Vivisection Movement,” 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.
“Animal Liberation and Moral Progress,” 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.
“Rap, Revolta Negra E Diferenca Racial," Revista de Comunicaco e Linguagens, (30)
November 2001, pp. 201-224.
“Los derechos de los animales y el progreso moral: la lucha por la evolución humana,”
Rebelion (http://rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=69854).
El Surgimiento de los Estudios Críticos Animalistas: De la teoría a la práctica y hacia una
educación superior por la liberación animal
Portuguese
“Debord and the Postmodern Turn, Shift, (www.zionedicoes.org)
“My Dog or Your Child? Ethical dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value,” Animal
Ethics (Brazilian website)
“Planet of The Apes: Where Humans are Slaves,” Animal Ethics.
Argentina
Accion Vegan
(http://www.accionvegan.org/index.php?id=434) (numerous essays translated)
“Una respuesta a los ” veganos puristas” y la “policía vegana” que critica a los veganos
que tienen gatos no-veganos” (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
“The Myth of Freedom of Speech”
(http://www.drstevebest.org/IlMitoDella.htm).
"Il fronte per la liberazione animale? Una forma di sabotaggio etico,” 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)
“Welfarismo, diritti animali e liberazionismo: Uno sguardo sul movimento animalista
negli Stati Uniti,” 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,” LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica
Antispecista, Anno 1, no.4, Marzo 2011, pp. 58-70
(http://www.liberazioni.org/articoli/BestS-02.pdf).
“The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation
into Higher Education,” LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, Anno 3, no. 8,
2012.
“Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism,”
LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, forthcoming, 2012.
German
http://www.bitebackgermany.net/ (numerous essays translated)
“Manifest für radikalen Abolitionismus: Totale Befreiung mit allen Mitteln, die nötig
sind,” February 2010, Bite Back (http://w160132-www.php5.dittdomene.no/manifest-
fuer-radikalen-abolitionismus-3)
“13 Wege sich für Allianzpolitik und totale Befreiung einzusetzen,” February, 2010, Bite
Back (http://w160132-www.php5.dittdomene.no/13-wege-sich-fur-allianzpolitik-und-
totale-befreiung-einzusetzen-659)
“Wenn du noch keine Angst gefühlt hast, hast du noch nicht angefangen zu kämpfen,”
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)
“Dr. Steve Best: Staatliche Repression und die Politik der Angst,” 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) “Biotechnologie, ethique, et politique du clonage,” in Le Clonage
Humain: En Arguments (eds. F. Haldeman et. al.) Geneve, 2005, pp. 285-371.
“The Ethics of Defending Animals,” 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
“Interview mit Dr. Steve Best,” September 2010, Tierrechtsgruppe Zurich
(http://www.tierrechtsgruppe-zh.ch/wp-content/files/Interview_mit_Steve_Best.pdf)
“Warum unterstützt du nicht die ALF?,” September 2009, Tierrechtsgruppe Zurich
(http://www.tierrechtsgruppe-zh.ch/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Warum-
unterst%C3%BCtzt-du-nicht-die-ALF.pdf)
Polish
“Robocop, czyli kryzys subiektywności,” Kwartalnik Filmowy ("Film Quarterly"), Nos.
31-32, 2000.
“Debord and the Society of the Cyberspectacle,” Kultura Popularna, #3 (9) 2004, 59-76.
“Polityka postmodernistyczna i bitwa o przyszlosc,” Dialogi Polityczne, Number 11,
Dec. 2008: 317-331.
Romanian
“The Killing Fields of South Africa: Eco-Wars, Species Apartheid, and Total Liberation,”
Echidistante: Revista de cultura si stiinte, Number 2 (50), 2007, pp. 35-97.
“Thinking Pluralistically: A Case for Direct Action,” 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
“Aldo 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
“The Impact of the Patriot Act on Civil Liberties,” Northwest Animal Rights Network,
Seattle
“The Challenge of Animal Rights,” Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los
Angeles, CA.
“Welfare and/or Abolition?” Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los Angeles,
CA.
“Engaging Public Interest,” Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
“Meet the Leaders and Authors,” Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los Angeles,
CA.
“The Attack on Constitutional Liberties,” Market Street Community Center, San
Francisco
Fall 2003
“Direct Action and Democracy,” University of Colorado, Denver
“Contemporary Liberation Movements,” University of Colorado, Denver
Spring 2004
"Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic," Ozark Natural Foods, Fayetteville, AR,
“Animal Rights and the Struggle for Moral Progress,” 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
“Singer V. Regan on “Personhood,” Animal Liberation Student Conference, Syracuse
University, New York
Summer 2004
“Debates in the History of Non-Violence,” National Animal Rights Conference,
Washington DC
“New Developments in Ethical Theory,” National Animal Rights Conference,
Washington DC
“Meet the Leaders of the Movement,” National Animal Rights Conference, Washington
DC
“Commonalities of Oppression,” National Animal Rights Conference, Washington DC
Fall 2004
“Theorizing Justice,” International Animal Rights 2004 conference, England
“The Meaning of Education,” Issues in Pedagogy Conference, University of Texas, El
Paso
“The Concept of ‘History’ in Liberation Movements,” University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
“The Crisis in Ethics: Moral Regression or Moral Evolution?” University of Ohio at
Miami
Winter 2004
“Philosophical Issues in the History of Political Terrorism,” University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
Spring 2005
“The New Abolitionism: Civil Rights, Animal Liberation, and Moral Progress,”
University of Iowa
Summer 2005
“Philosophical and Political Fallacies in Standard Justifications for Slavery,” Kent,
England
“What is Moral Progress?” Dublin, Ireland
“Ethics and the Myths of Vivisection,” Oxford University
Fall 2005
“Global Terrorism and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’” University of Connecticut
“The Ethical and Scientific Fallacies of Transgenic Art,” UCLA
Spring 2006
“Social Justice and Immigration Policy,” University of Texas, El Paso
“Civil Disobedience in the American Tradition,” Salt Lake City Community College
“The Anti-Constitutional Measures of the USA PATRIOT Act,” Sam Weller’s
Bookstore, Salt Lake City, Utah
“Political Tactics from a Pluralist Perspective,” University of Utah
“Biotechnology, Art, and the Aesthetic Exploitation of Animals,” UCLA
“Crisis and the Crossroads of History: The Need for a Revitalized Citizenry,” Humboldt
State University
“Environmentalism in the 21st Century,” Stanford University Law School
“Why Social Movements Should Support Animal Rights,” Stanford University
“Linking Human and Animal Rights Movements,” Oslo Norway
“Social Theory and Civil Disobedience,” Stockholm, Sweden
“Basic Issues in Contemporary Ethics,” Malmo, Sweden
Summer 2006
“The Killing Fields: Eco-Wars and Species Apartheid in South Africa,” Ethics Society of
South Africa
“The ‘War on Terrorism’ and its Implications for Democracy Movements,” Institute for
Security Studies, Cape Town, South Africa
“Animal Rights and Moral Progress,” University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa
“Understanding Revolutionary Environmentalism,” University of Johannesburg, South
Africa
Fall 2006
“Immigration, Globalization, and Social Justice,” Border Studies Forum, UTEP
“What the USA PATRIOT Act Means for Civil Liberties,” Erie, Pennsylvania
Spring 2007
“What Do We Mean By `Moral Progress?” Keynote Speech at Miami Dade Animal
Ethics Conference
“Redefining Citizenship in the Age of Environmental Crisis” Emily Carr Institute,
Vancouver Canada
“On Being `Human,’” University of Maine, Orano
Fall 2007
“Rethinking Rights from Ecofeminist, Anarchist, and Pragmatic Standpoints,” University
Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin
Spring 2008
“Remembering Bob Solomon: Poet, Stylist, Existentialist,” Memorial Conference for
Robert C. Solomon, University of Texas, Austin
“What is `Critical Animal Studies’?” Keynote speech at University of Billings, Montana
"Should Civil Society Fight for Animal Society?" Centre for Civil Society, University of
Durban, South Africa
“Alliance Politics in the 21st Century,” University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
“Moral Progress and the `Postmodern Condition,’” University of Cape Town, South
Africa
Summer 2008
“Contemporary Theories of Direct Democracy as Viewed Through the Greek Tradition,”
Athens, Greece
“Is Civilization Incompatible with `Progress’?” University of Romania, Iasu
“Animal Rights and the Fallacies of Common Objections,” University of Moscow
“Tolstoy’s Legacy: Civil Disobedience in the Modern West,” Moscow Film Society
“Abolitionism, Then and Now: Comparing 19th
with 21st Century Movements to End
Slavery,” University of St. Petersburg
“On the Complexities of Comparing the Human and Animal Holocaust,” Zagreb, Croatia
( http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/animalist/49en.html).
Fall 2008
“Academic Repression in the Post-9/11 Era,” University of the Witwatersrand, South
Africa
“From Paulo Freire to Humane Education: Developments in Contemporary Theories of
Pedagogy,” University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
“Building Bridges: Shared Concerns of Contemporary Social Movements,” University of
Cape Town, South Africa
“Reflections on Moral Progress Amidst a Time of Crisis,” University of Cape Town,
South Africa
Summer 2009
“Reflections on the Relevance of the `War’ Metaphor to Social Conflict,” Oslo, Norway
“Slavery and Abolitionism in Human and Animal Rights Movements Since the 19th
Century,” Oslo Norway
Fall 2009
“Resolved: Against Vivisection,” the University College Cork Philosophical Society,
Ireland
Online Chat with Animal Rights Book
Spring 2010
“On Critical Animal Studies,” video conference talk, Professor Carol Gigliotti, Emily
Carr University, Vancouver, BC
“Academic Repression,” video interview with panel on my Academic Repression book,
Syracuse University
“From Civil Liberties to the New Security State,” Skidmore College, New York
“The Rise of a Dominator Society,” Animal Ethics Conference, Utah Valley University
Summer 2010
“Total Liberation” 2nd
International Meeting for Environmental Ethics, Athens
Italy
“The Animal Standpoint,” International Animal Rights Gathering, Italy
“The Concept of `Progress,’” International AR Gathering, Italy
“Understanding the Conflicts Between Radical Social and Animal Rights Traditions,”
Vegan Festival, Milan, Italy
“Why Human Rights Entail Animal Rights,” Animal Rights Film Festival, Turin, Italy
“Everything You Thing About the “Human” is Wrong: The Revolutionary Implications
of Cognitive Ethology for Human Identity,” University of Bergamo, Italy
“The Moral Foundations of Rights-Talk,” Zurich, Switzerland
Spring 2011
Skype presentation to Dr. Carol Gigliotti’s Art Seminar Course, Vancouver BC
Summer 2011
“The Revolutionary Implications of Animal Standpoint Theory,” International Animal
Rights Conference, Luxembourg (http://www.ar-conference.com)
“Animal Liberation and Moral Progress: The Struggle for Human Evolution,”
International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg
Panel Discussion: “Vegan outreach and Direct Action,” International Animal Rights
Conference, Luxembourg
“The Ethics of Defending Animals,” symposium, the Institute of Political Science
Institute in Paris (http://www.sciencespo.fr/en).
“Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of
Resistance,” activist radio station, Canal Sud, Toulouse, France
(http://www.canalsud.net/)
“The Origins, Philosophy, and Politics of the ALF,” Wroclaw, Poland
“Animal Liberation and the Legacy of 19th Century Abolitionism,” Krakow, Poland
“Crisis and the Crossroads of History: The Need for a Radicalized Citizenry,” Gdańsk,
Poland
Videotaped presentation and live Skype conference to London on the topic of free speech
Fall 2011
“Veganism: The War We Can’t Lose,” 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
“Everything You Know About Homo sapiens is Wrong: The Revolutionary Implications
of Cognitive Ethology,” Out of the Box Lecture Series, University of Maribor, Slovenia
On Abolition and Activism,” Slovenia, July 2011
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjydZuqZJyU&feature=related)
“Beyond Humanism: The Paradigm Shift of Animal Standpoint Theory,” Zagreb,
Croatia, July 2011
Fall 2012
Speaking Tour of Italy, September 1-15
“Thinking Through the Pacifist-Violence Debate from a Pluralist, Pragmatist, and
Contextualist Approach,” International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg
http://www.ar-conference.com/
http://ar-conference.com/steve_best.php
On the Concept of (“Total”) `War’ and Why It Applies to the Human Condition,”
International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg
“How To Think About Human Nature,” University of Oporto, Portugal
“Total Liberation Politics and Animal Party Structure,” 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/
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