Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, "Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory" (Polity, 2022)
New Books in Philosophy
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The Denial of Rat Dignity in Modern Capitalist Societies
The denigration of animals is deployed in really specific ways to devalue certain humans. The tendency though to treat animals and the rest of nature as nothing more than resources is a very central part of how late capitalism works. So if emancipatory strategies are going to sort of be tied to the subjugation of animals without questioning the larger structures, it's going to just reinforce this denial of dignity," she says.
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