ABSTRACT

One of the Abu Ghraib torture photographs released ten years ago shows a naked Iraqi inmate terrorized by military dogs. The first part of this chapter develops the concept of "feral" in conversation with various theories such as biopolitics, disability studies, postcolonialisms, and queer theories. By measuring the possibility of the feral in theoretical and empirical sites, this chapter offers a queer, transspecies, and postcolonial vision of the contemporary biopolitics of borders, a critical perspective in a time marked by intensifying global mobility, border control, and migration crises. Emerging from post-Cold War context, feral justice invites the reader to reimagine transspecies ethics beyond the critique of instrumentalization, and beyond the normative boundaries of human/nature/technology. In a sense, the feral justice enacted by Jil-pung, in assemblage with Eun-young, is an inverted image of Derrida's wolf-man. In this chapter, the author have traced feral trajectories and affects in transspecies border events across two geopolitical sites.