D is for Dog (original) (raw)

Animalia: A bestiary of our times, 2020

Abstract

With the rise of the British Empire, selective breeding assumed much greater political and economic importance. Its cultural productivity circulated through and gathered force from two imaginaries of the international: the industrial standard and biological race, their synergy making plain the inseparability of empire and industry. Standardization valued the uniformity of mechanically produced industrial goods and a purity reminiscent of race; while race found in the standard new logical and practical means of hierarchically parsing, ordering, and organizing bodies and space. The machine’s sheer material power and metering abilities carried the racial cruelties through which industrial and imperial-colonial life was recognized and made, including that of the canine. https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-1128-6\_601.pdf

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