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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Philosophy @ UWS Seminars 2014<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The Writing and Society Research Centre and Philosophy @ UWS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Dr Dinesh Wadiwel<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Social and Political Sciences<span style="color:black">, The University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">TITLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Like
One Who is Bringing his Own Hide to Market: Marx, Derrida and Animal Commodification</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">DATE/TIME:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> Wednesday April 30, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">PLACE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">[How
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Abstract: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">In an evocative line in Capital, Marx states that the worker under capitalism has “brought his own hide to market and now has nothing else to expect but – a tanning.” This is not the first reference to “tanning” in Capital
; indeed in some respects the process of submitting one’s own skin for exchange appears for Marx as a persistent metaphor for the commodification of human labour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">But what about animal labour? Can we use the tools that Marx offers to provide an account for the specific exploitation of animals within capitalism and other economic systems? Examining the first chapter of Marx’s Capital
vol. 1 – “The Commodity” – and Marx’s exploration on money in Grundrisse, this paper will explore the imposition of a value equivalence upon the life (and death) of the animal within industrialised animal production. Noting that livestock were some of the
first examples of “money” used in exchange, I will argue that commodification of animals does not focus on merely recognizing value in the form of exchange value, but realizes value in a side by side process of fostering species differentiation between human
and non human.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Turning to Jacques Derrida’s 1971 essay “White Mythology,” I will explore Derrida’s examination of the metaphor and its connection (or lost connection) to original value. I will argue, in line with Derrida’s later concern
with the term “animal” itself, that the imposition of value is always a violent form of metaphoricisation that threatens to flatten our multiple difference. As Derrida discusses, the commodity that poses as money is worn down through the process of exchange.
In this sense the commodity value of animals as property might be understood as an intertwining process of material and epistemic violence – a literal and metaphoric “skinning” of the animal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">This paper aims to reanimate consideration of a political economy of animals within contemporary industrialised (and post-industrialised) capitalism, with a view to mapping forms of political subjectivity, collectivity and
resistance</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5C5C5C"><br>
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</span><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/arts/sociology_social_policy/staff/profiles/dinesh.wadiwel.php">Dinesh Wadiwel</a> is lecturer and Director of the Master of Human Rights, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney. His book, The War
Against Animals, is forthcoming with Rodopi Press, and he is currently working on a co-edited collection with Matthew Chrulew entitled Foucault and Animals<span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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