Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times Volume 6

by Nicole Shukin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816653429
• ISBN13: 9780816653423
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"