Porkopolis
American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm
1st Edition
Published on 8. May 2020
320 pages
978-1-4780-1204-7 (ISBN)
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Alex Blanchette explores how the daily lives of a Midwestern town that is home to a massive pork complex were reorganized around the life and death cycles of pigs while using the factory farm as a way to detail the state of contemporary American industrial capitalism.
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Alex Blanchette is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Tufts University and coeditor of How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet.
Content
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Preface. Watching Hogs Watch Workers xiii
A Note on Photography xvii
Introduction. The "Factory" Farm 1
Part I. Boar
1. The Dover Flies 33
2. The Herd: Intimate Biosecurity and Posthuman Labor 45
Part II. Sow
3. Somos Puercos 73
4. Stimulation: Instincts in Production 89
Part III. Hog
5. Lutalyse 121
6. Stockperson: Love, Muscles, and the Industrial Runt 137
Part IV. Carcass
7. Miss Wicked 167
8. Biological System: Breaking in at the End of Industrial Time 177
Part V. Viscera
9. Maybe Some Blood, but Mostly Grease 203
10. Lifecycle: On Using All of the Porcine Species 211
Epilogue. The (De-)Industrialization of the World 239
Notes 247
References 265
Index 287
Acknowledgments ix
Preface. Watching Hogs Watch Workers xiii
A Note on Photography xvii
Introduction. The "Factory" Farm 1
Part I. Boar
1. The Dover Flies 33
2. The Herd: Intimate Biosecurity and Posthuman Labor 45
Part II. Sow
3. Somos Puercos 73
4. Stimulation: Instincts in Production 89
Part III. Hog
5. Lutalyse 121
6. Stockperson: Love, Muscles, and the Industrial Runt 137
Part IV. Carcass
7. Miss Wicked 167
8. Biological System: Breaking in at the End of Industrial Time 177
Part V. Viscera
9. Maybe Some Blood, but Mostly Grease 203
10. Lifecycle: On Using All of the Porcine Species 211
Epilogue. The (De-)Industrialization of the World 239
Notes 247
References 265
Index 287
