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Abstract Life, Abstract Labor, Abstract Mind

Charles Thorpe and Brynna Jacobson

Drawing upon Alfred Sohn-Rethel's work, we argue that, just as capitalism produces abstract labor, it coproduces both abstract mind and abstract life. Abstract mind is the…

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Drawing upon Alfred Sohn-Rethel's work, we argue that, just as capitalism produces abstract labor, it coproduces both abstract mind and abstract life. Abstract mind is the split between mind and nature and between subject/observer and observed object that characterizes scientific epistemology. Abstract mind reflects an abstracted objectified world of nature as a means to be exploited. Biological life is rendered as abstract life by capitalist exploitation and by the reification and technologization of organisms by contemporary technoscience. What Alberto Toscano has called “the culture of abstraction” imposes market rationality onto nature and the living world, disrupting biotic communities and transforming organisms into what Finn Bowring calls “functional bio-machines.”

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The Capitalist Commodification of Animals
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020200000035004
ISBN: 978-1-83982-681-8

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  • Abstract life
  • abstract labor
  • science
  • technology
  • Karl Marx
  • Alfred Sohn-Rethel

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The Capitalist Commodification of Animals
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020200000035014
ISBN: 978-1-83982-681-8

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The Capitalist Commodification of Animals: A Brief Introduction

Brett Clark and Tamar Diana Wilson

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The Capitalist Commodification of Animals
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020200000035001
ISBN: 978-1-83982-681-8

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The Capitalist Commodification of Animals
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020200000035010
ISBN: 978-1-83982-681-8

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