Capture : American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition

By:

Traisnel, Antoine [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2020Description: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)ISBN:

9781452963907
9781517909642

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Additional physical formats: 9781517909635. | 9781517909642. | Erscheint auch als: Capture. Druck-Ausgabe Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2020DDC classification:

813/.309362 23

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PS374.A54

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Summary: Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human–animal relations. From Audubon’s still-life watercolors to Muybridge’s trip-wire locomotion studies, from Melville’s epic chases to Poe’s detective hunts, the nineteenth century witnessed a surge of artistic, literary, and scientific treatments that sought to “capture” the truth of animals at the historical moment when animals were receding from everyday view. In Capture, Antoine Traisnel reveals how the drive to contain and record disappearing animals was a central feature and organizing pursuit of the nineteenth-century U.S. cultural canon. Capture offers a critical genealogy of the dominant representation of animals as elusive, precarious, and endangered that came to circulate widely in the nineteenth century. Traisnel argues that “capture” is deeply continuous with the projects of white settler colonialism and the biocapitalist management of nonhuman and human populations, demonstrating that the desire to capture animals in representation responded to and normalized the systemic disappearance of animals effected by unprecedented changes in the land, the rise of mass slaughter, and the new awareness of species extinction. Tracking the prototyping of biopolitical governance and capitalist modes of control, Traisnel theorizes capture as a regime of vision by which animals came to be seen, over the course of the nineteenth century, as at once unknowable and yet understood in advance—a frame by which we continue to encounter animals todayPPN: PPN: 1778431011Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB

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