ANIMAL CAPITAL: RENDERING LIFE IN BIOPOLITICAL TIMES
Book ID/图书代码： 13584015B81751
English Summary/英文概要： 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 simultaneously to cultural technologies and economies of mimesis and to the carnal business of boiling down and recycling animal remains. Rendering’s accommodation of these discrepant logics, she contends, suggests a rubric for the critical task of tracking the biopolitical conditions and contradictions of animal capital across the spaces of culture and economy.
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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书既是生命政治学角度的评论，也是对于动物的研究，这两个主题很少在理论上被联系在一起。NicoleShukin以坚定的唯物主义视角关注“动物的问题”，挑战了一直回避这些问题的哲学唯心主义，追踪在二十世纪以及二十一世纪初政治资本和动物如何互相施以影响。从屠宰场、电视、电影和手机中的动物资本，到对禽流感和疯牛病之类跨物种传播的流行性疾病的大规模恐慌，Shukin解答了资本主义条件下物种、人种以及劳动力之间的纠葛。本书是对于自然文化政治的拷问。（LYR）
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About the Author/作者介绍： NicoleShukin是加拿大英属哥伦比亚维多利亚大学英语系助理教授。
Nicole Shukin is assistant professor of English at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
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