Penser la matérialité du vivant à travers la viande cellulaire

Abstract

Synthetic meat or the production of edible animal tissues in vitro, addresses major concerns such as climate change, animal ethics and human health. This article explores its epistemological specificity and its impact on our conception of human and non-human life. Cellular meat, derived from cellular agriculture, questions living materiality and its appropriation via technoscientific means. We analyze the ontological status of cellular meat through the technical recomposition of life, characterized by the process of biofabricating “meat,” thus revealing the material production of new forms of edible biological matter. A critical analysis of neo-materialism illustrates the limits of this materiality and its social implications, specifically on the relationship with animals and rural communities. By examining prospective discourses and semantic shifts surrounding cellular agriculture, we question the promises and imaginaries associated with cellular meat.

Keywords

• life
• materiality
• epistemology
• cellular meat
• animal
• in vitro meat