Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Introduction: What is a Biopolitical Animal? 1
5. PART I: THE ANIMAL OF BIOPOLITICS
6. 1. Turning Back to Nature: Foucault and the Practice of Animality 23
7. 2. Community and Animality in the Ancient Cynics 40
8. 3. Biopolitics of Covid-19 and the Space of Animals: A Planetary Perspective 58
9. 4. How to Chirp like a Cricket: Agamben and the Reversal of Anthropogenesis 76
10. 5. Animality and Inoperativity: Interspecies Form-of-Life 92
11. PART II: TALES OF BIOPOLITICS AND ANIMALITY
12. 6. Restraining Biopolitics: On Dino Buzzati’s Living Animals 113
13. 7. Cages and Mirrors: Mr. Palomar and the Albino Gorilla 132
14. 8. Bunnies and Biopolitics: Killing, Culling and Caring for Rabbits 151
15. 9. Deading Life and the Undying Animal: Necropolitics After the Factory Farm 175
16. 10. Factory Farms for Fishes: Aquaculture, Biopolitics and Resistance 190
17. PART III: RECONCEPTUALISING BIOPOLITICS
18. 11. Imagining Liberation beyond Biopolitics: The Biopolitical ‘War against Animals’ and Strategies for Ending It 215
19. 12. Animal Magnetism: (Bio)Political Theologies Between the Creature and the Animal 234
20. 13. Creaturely Biopolitics 252
21. 14. A Dog’s Life: From the Biopolitical Animal to the Posthuman 274
22. Afterword: Locating Race and Animality amidst the Politics of Interspecies Life 295
23. Index 299