Against Animal Authenticity, Against the Forced March of the Now: a review of Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital

In one half of a pair of critical reviews looking at recent titles in animal studies, Karl Steel examines Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital (Shukin reviews Steel in the other half). In particular, Steel looks at Shukin’s biopolitical framework, and considers how that framework challenges not only our conception of what constitutes the animal, but also–and more to the bone–our conception of the capacity of fields like animal studies.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/animal_capital)