Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times
Nicole Shukin 以「rendering」的双关（文化再现 / 动物脂肪炼制）为核心，追踪动物如何同时作为隐喻和原材料被资本主义消费——从福特的流水线到好莱坞的动画片。 Nicole Shukin builds on the double meaning of 'rendering' (cultural representation / industrial processing of animal remains) to trace how animals are simultaneously consumed as metaphor and raw material by capitalism — from Ford's assembly line to Hollywood animation.
Animal Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) juxtaposes biopolitical critique and animal studies — two fields seldom theorized together. 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 of mimesis and to the carnal business of boiling down and recycling animal remains.