This talk was a presentation of the pluridisciplinary colloquium Manufacturing of Rights, the first phase of the inquiry The Against Nature Journal.

On the occasion of Emilie Notéris’ residency at the Violette and co bookstore in Paris, Gregory Castéra and Emma Mc Cormick-Goodhart introduced the event organised at art centre Ashkal Alwan (Beirut) on May 14–16 2015. The talk was followed by a lecture of Another Earth, the text Emilie Notéris wrote for the Manufacturing of Rights.