Ron Broglio
Ron Broglio is a writer and documentary filmmaker, who received a CAF grant for his work. His research focuses on how philosophy and aesthetics can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment. His book Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) asks what is an animal phenomenology and how might it be thought through art. In 2015, he published an edited volume, with co-editor Frederick Young, entitled Being Human: Between Animals and Technology, and in 2017, he published Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism (Routledge, SUNY Press).
In 2022, Ron published Animal Revolution, which asks, “Might animals be deliberately ‘jamming the anthropological machine’?” You can listen to Josh Milburn’s interview with Ron on the Knowing Animals podcast. Ron is currently the director of the desert humanities initiative at Arizona State University, and is also Associate Director of the Institute for Humanities Research.
Ron was interviewed on the Knowing Animals podcast (June 13, 2022). Listen to it here.