Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times

by Nicole Shukin

Overview

The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies two subjects seldom theorized together signals the double edged intervention of Animal Captial, Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the "question of th animal," challenging the philosophical idealism that has dogged the question by traing how the politics of captial and of animal life maping on one another in market cultures of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.<$$$>text not clear

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816653416
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Series:	Posthumanities , #6
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Nicole Shukin is assistant professor of English at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.



Nicole Shukin is assistant professor of English at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction New Life Forms and Functions of Animal Fetishism 1

Chapter 1 Rendering's Modern Logics 49

Chapter 2 Automobility: The Animal Capital of Cars, Films, and Abattoirs 87

Chapter 3 Telemobility: Telecommunication's Animal Currencies 131

Chapter 4 Biomobility: Calculating Kinship in an Era of Pandemic Speculation 181

Postscript Animal Cannibalism in the Capitalist Globe-Mobile 225

Notes 233

Index 285