Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
政治学者 Timothy Pachirat 在美国大平原一家屠宰场卧底五个月（每天宰杀 2,500 头牛，每 12 秒一头），从工人视角记录产业化屠宰如何通过空间隔离和视线管理让暴力变得不可见。 Political scientist Timothy Pachirat went undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse (2,500 cattle killed daily — one every 12 seconds), documenting from a worker's perspective how industrialized slaughter renders violence invisible through spatial segregation and the politics of sight.
Every Twelve Seconds (Yale UP, 2011) is based on Pachirat’s undercover fieldwork from June to December 2004. He worked three distinct positions — liver hanger in the cooler, cattle herder on the killing floor, and quality-control inspector — documenting how the 121 distinct jobs on the kill floor are organized so that only a handful of workers ever directly see the act of killing. The book is a study of how modern societies make violence against animals possible by making it invisible.