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Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times
Nicole Shukin
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Description for Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
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 upon 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 humans. Rendering refers ... Read more
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 upon 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 humans. Rendering refers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Posthumanities
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816653423
SKU
V9780816653423
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About Nicole Shukin
Nicole Shukin is assistant professor of English at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
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