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The Biocapital of Living–and the Art of Dying–After Fukushima
After Fukushima, a tiny handful of “refuseniks” defied the government’s orders to evacuate a twenty-kilometer zone around the damaged reactors in the region. Rather than relocating to temporary shelters, several refuseniks remained in the zone to care for livestock who had been abandoned, and whose market value had been ruined by exposure to radiation. This essay formulates their defiance as an “art of dying” in order to amplify its potential to undermine resilience as a resource of the biopolitical and nuclear state, and to open up the possibility of a post-capitalist animality within the nuclear ruins.
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Animal Capital
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 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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Security Bonds: On Feeling Power and the Fiction of an Animal Governmentality
According to Pease, state fantasies \"lay down the scenarios through which the state's rules and norms can be experienced as internal to the citizens' desire. According to Pease, the state fantasy of American exceptionalism operating between the end of the Cold War in 1989 and the beginning of the War on Terror just over a decade later constituted a massive \"disavowal of imperialism\" by U.S. citizens who interiorized the rationale for imperial intervention, indeed affectively experienced it as a realization of their own will rather than as \"an imposi- tion of the state\" (23, 6). [...]it is crucial to consider that the workings of security might be positively aligned with an ethics of \"human-animal flourishing\" affirmed, among others, by Donna Haraway (53).11 Might not the ends of security be more optimally served by living beings who are free to realize their love-potentials than by those who are strictly obedient? In both fighting k9s and Welcome Home Dogs, animals can be seen working not strictly obediently or automatically, like Cartesian machines, but rather passionately, as companion subjects of feeling, in defense of Western liberal democratic life. Because sovereign violence tends to receive most critical attention in critiques of the U.S.-led War on Terror, it is important to juxtapose spring-coiled k9s with their seem- ingly benign, biopolitical doubles, the dogs that re-sensitize soldiers to civilian life.
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Tense Animals: On Other Species of Pastoral Power
Shukin catalyzes discussion of the ways biopolitical thought is prone to generating concepts-pastoral power, \"bare life:' and so on--that displace animals from the material stakes of the discussion even as they metaphorically summon them. He begins by briefly parsing his formulation of pastoral power to suggest that he avoids examining how it functions as a discourse of species. Despite his commitment to specificity; Michel Foucault overlooks how this form of power blatantly traffics in similarities and differences across the government of humans and of animals. He talks about Anand Pandian's \"anthropology of biopolitics\" for a model of how Foucault's genealogy of pastoral power can be pluralized through the development of alternate, postcolonial genealogies involving actual practices of animal stewardship.
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The Hidden Labour of Reading Pleasure
What I will call \"the attention theory of value\" fines in the notion of \"labor,\" elaborated in Marx's labor theory of value, the prototype of the newest source of value production under capitalism: value-producing human attention. [...]a shift in our discipline to acknowledging reading as work would have far-reaching institutional and pedagogical ramifications, compelling us to rethink, for one, our prerogative of instilling a desire to read in students without addressing the economized spaces of reading or \"attentional biopower\" within which they now constantly desire/labour. Oprah's Book Club might be described as a social technology geared to biopolitically producing reading subjects and populations who solve a potential crisis of literary overproduction through their expanded attentional capacities (it is common knowledge that sales of books which make the Oprah list skyrocket). The second observation springs from my own dawning yet belated labour-consciousness this past year, as, in the first term of a tenure-track job, I flopped exhausted into bed each night only to face a stack of to-read books on the bedside table pressuring me for attention; or, found myself trying to read snatches of a critical essay while I did the dishes; or, anxiously scanned the catalogues of university presses for cutting-edge books in my field that I knew I probably should know, while standing in the checkout line at the grocery store; etc.
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Biomobility
In the guerrilla rescue operation composing the opening scene of the movie28 Days Later(directed by Danny Boyle, 2002), British animal rights activists break into a London laboratory to release its captive simian subjects. They find live chimpanzees locked inside glass and metal cages. The only chimp not contained inside a cage is strapped down by its arms and legs onto a medical bed cum sacrificial altar inside a ring of television sets shown incessantly playing and replaying grainy media footage of human executions, violent riots, and wars. Among the cruel experiments to which the lab animals appear to
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Postscript
Globalization popularly connotes a swirlingmise–en–abymeof mobiles inside mobiles, of media inside media. Zooming in from the “globe–mobile”—from an earth that is in its entirety now subsumed, albeit unevenly, by the flows and forces of capital—one narrows in on arteries coursing with automobiles and airplanes carrying subjects who, if they are sufficiently affluent to own a mobile phone, BlackBerry, or personal laptop, can dial up digital connections and virtually spiral back out to the World Wide Web. Yet as the previous chapter suggested, alongside neoliberal promises of effortless auto- and telemobility, globalization also poses
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Telemobility
Over the course of the 1780s in Bologna, Italy, an anatomist and obstetrician by the name of Luigi Galvani standardized the practice of inducing electrical reflexes out of severed frog legs to demonstrate his theorem of animal electricity.¹ InCommentary on the Effect of Electricity on Muscular Motion(1791), Galvani claimed that frog muscle was “the most sensitive electrometer yet discovered” (80), albeit one carved out of the flesh of a “headless frog” (27). The doctor’s method of reliably arranging the raw material of his “animal conductors” (31) in a fashion that guaranteed repeatable results to any who modeled it
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