Description for Animal Capital
hardcover. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
Illuminates the profound contingency of market life on animal figures and flesh
The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies—two subjects seldom theorized together—signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the “question of the animal,” challenging the philosophical idealism that has dogged the question by tracing how the politics of capital and of animal life impinge on one another in market cultures of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Shukin argues that an analysis of capital’s incarnations in animal figures and flesh is pivotal to extending the examination of biopower beyond its effects on ... Read more From the animal capital of abattoirs and automobiles, films and mobile phones, to pandemic fear of species-leaping diseases such as avian influenza and mad cow, Shukin makes startling linkages between visceral and virtual currencies in animal life, illuminating entanglements of species, race, and labor in the conditions of capitalism. In reckoning with the violent histories and intensifying contradictions of animal rendering, Animal Capital raises provocative and pressing questions about the cultural politics of nature. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Posthumanities
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816653416
SKU
V9780816653416
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99-1
About Nicole Shukin
Nicole Shukin is assistant professor of English at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
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