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SUMMARY:Affective economies and the atmospheric politics of lively capital
  - Maan Barua\, Department of Geography\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20191022T120000Z
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CONTACT:Peadar Brehony
DESCRIPTION:This paper is concerned with  the  affective  economies of  li
 vely  capital.   Its central argument is that nonhuman life  itself  has b
 ecome  a locus  of accumulation\,  marked by  an atmospheric  politics  of
   capital: the incorporation  of  entire  lifeworlds into regimes of  gene
 rating  value  and an intensification  of  relations between life  and  pr
 oductivity. Focusing on  the Giant panda  – a  spectacular "charismatic"
   icon  raising millions  of  dollars globally  –  the paper first exami
 nes  junctures at  which  their  alluring  affects  emerge and are manipul
 ated  to produce value.   Turning to  panda  lifeworlds  in zoos\, it then
   shows  how such  value  production  is contingent  upon affective  labou
 rs nonhumans perform in  captivity. Nonhuman labour\, as a  component of a
 tmospheric politics\, enables  understanding how lively capital is produce
 d  and  reproduced\, a  theme  interrogated through  a critical  analysis 
  of  the  commercial global circulation of  pandas.   The paper develops t
 he  concept  of  atmospheric politics  – an intervention  in an  animal
 ’s milieu and its  affective  intensities  – as a  means for analyzing
  the  dynamics of  lively  capital.   Atmospheric politics  retrieves a  c
 ritical political economy  obscured by  the  concept of  nonhuman  charism
 a\,  and restages  biopower  as  an  apparatus  and  political technology 
  of  capital.
LOCATION:Hardy Building 101 (first floor)\, Downing Site\, Cambridge
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