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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | : 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.Publication details: , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , ©2009.Description: viii, [307] pages : illustrations :22cmISBN:
  • 9780816653423
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2 SHU
Summary: The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studiestwo subjects seldom theorized togethersignals 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
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The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studiestwo subjects seldom theorized togethersignals 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

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