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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824286403321

Autore

Shukin Nicole

Titolo

Animal capital : rendering life in biopolitical times / / Nicole Shukin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4416-1270-X

0-8166-6805-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, [307] pages) : illustrations

Collana

Posthumanities

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Animals - Symbolic aspects

Animals - Economic aspects

Animals - Political aspects

Human-animal relationships

Wildlife utilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rendering's modern logics -- Automobility : the animal capital of cars, films, and abattoirs -- Telemobility : telecommunication's animal currencies -- Biomobility : calculating kinship in an era of pandemic speculation.

Sommario/riassunto

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.