Animal Capital
Book (italiano):
"Animal capital," as Shukin (English, U. of Victoria, Canada) formulates it, simultaneously denotes "the semiotic currency of animal signs and the carnal traffic in animal substances," in the Fordist and post-Fordist eras of capitalism, and the "tangle of biopolitical relations within which the economic symbolic capital of animal life can no longer be sorted into binary distinction." She argues that animal memes and animal matter are mutually overdetermined as forms of capital, analyzing a broad array of cultural discourses and material practices related to technologies and discourses of mobility, including the Fordist car assembly line and less-visible Fordist animal disassembly line, contemporary sports utility vehicle advertisements, telecommunication discourses mimicking the ostensible immediacy of animal affect, and fears of zoonotic pandemics. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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