Balam Kenter, ''Rendering Surplus, Rendering Flesh: Capitalism, Animals, and Disability''

Speaker | Conférencier : Balam Kenter, Concordia University Organisation: GRÉEA Also available on| Également disponible sur : https://soundcloud.com/greea/ Abstract | Résumé The animal rendering industry and surplus populations are two features of capitalism that are both invisibilized as by-products, subject to logics of waste-management and recycling. Shukin’s (2009) genealogy of how animal life gets symbolically and carnally rendered capital, demonstrates the central role of animals in the reproduction of capitalist hegemony. Similarly, the paradox of surplus populations, another kind of bare life, is that they are redundant to capital while being absolutely essential to, and created by, it (Marx, 2000; Endnotes, 2010). 40 percent of the global workforce is currently rendered superfluous (Benanav, 2014). Most of this global surplus population is disabled (WHO, 2011; UN, 2015), showing capitalism to be a disabling power. Appreciating the centrality of rendering and surplus populat