AnimalFarm - Book club on Dinesh Wadiwel's work | 2 - "Animals and Capital"
AnimalFarm explores the architectural history of animal farming in Europe and North America, from sixteenth-century Palladian villas until late-twentieth-century automated factory farms.
The project engages with the perspectives of critical animal studies, history of veterinary medicine, and labor history.
AnimalFarm ultimately explores the historical roots of a controversial phenomenon of the Anthropocene, and it fosters an alternative gaze on the spatial, material, and ethical implications of the human-animal relationship through time.
This informal two-part book club focuses on Dinesh Wadiwel’s two major works, The War Against Animals (2015) and Animals and Capital (2023), with the primary aim of bringing together researchers from different backgrounds to foster dialogue and exchange perspectives. The talks will be in English.
2 – On Animals and Capital (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
Building on Karl Marx’s value theory, Wadiwel argues that factory farms and industrial fisheries are not merely an example of unchecked human supremacism, nor a result of the victory of market forces, but a combination of both. In this book, he untangles this contemporary handshake between hierarchical anthropocentrism and capitalism.
PROGRAM
Wednesday 30.09, 13.00–14.00 (CET) – on The War against Animals
Wednesday 14.10, 13.00–14.00 (CET) – on Animals and Capital
INFO
To attend online, please send an email to: animal.farm@polito.it