Abstracts
Résumé
Les nouvelles perspectives sur le travail animal mettent en évidence le rôle des non-humains dans la création de valeur. Cependant, parmi ces analyses, peu explorent le rôle de la résistance dans la définition du travail animal et la structure de cette activité au sein des chaînes de valeur. Dans cet essai, j’explore la relation entre le travail animal en régime capitaliste, sa relation avec la résistance et le potentiel offert par la réflexion sur la résistance au temps capitaliste. J’examine d’abord le travail animal, en me concentrant plus particulièrement sur les animaux destinés à l’alimentation, et tente de dénouer la complexité de leur place structurelle au sein des systèmes de valeur capitalistes. J’analyse ensuite l’antagonisme spécifique qui façonne le travail des animaux destinés à l’alimentation, où les animaux affrontent les humain·es, et de plus en plus les machines, dans des relations d’hostilité. Mon objectif est de mettre au jour la façon dont la résistance est liée à la position structurelle des animaux destinés à l’alimentation en tant que sujets travailleurs. Le perfectionnement des technologies de domination et leur réponse aux résistances « sauvages » des animaux visent à synchroniser le temps de travail animal avec les rythmes des processus productifs. Cette perspective met en lumière la politique du temps associée à la subordination des animaux au capital, mais elle est à relier aussi, possiblement, au fait d’imaginer une vie utopique des animaux en dehors de ce temps.
Mots-clés :
- Animaux,
- travail,
- résistance,
- Marx,
- capitalisme
Abstract
Emerging perspectives on the labor of animals highlight the role of non-humans in generating value. However, few of these accounts explore the role of resistance in shaping the character of animal labor and the structure of this activity within value chains. In this essay, I explore the relationship between animal labor under capitalism, its relationship to resistance, and the potential offered by contemplation of resistance to capitalist time. First, I examine animal labor, focusing particularly on animals used for food, and attempt to untangle the complexity of their structural place within systems of value under capitalism. Second, I discuss the specific antagonism that shapes the work of food animals, where animals confront humans, and increasingly machines, in relations of hostility. My aim here is to show the way that resistance is tied to the structural position of food animals as laboring subjects. The refinement of technologies of domination, and their response to the “wild” resistances of animals, aims at bringing animal labor time into sync with the rhythms of productive processes. This perspective highlights the politics of time involved with animal subordination to capital, but it also perhaps connects with a utopian imagining of life for animals outside of this time.
Keywords:
- Animals,
- Labor,
- Resistance,
- Marx,
- Capitalism
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