Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Hagood, Taylor
Abstract
This study addresses the relationship between animals and capitalism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3, and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. These texts and their authors attempted to change the conversation surrounding animals and imagine alternatives to traditional thinking surrounding animal subjectivity. Despite their intentions, however, the authors fail to depict non-exploitative relationships with animals within capitalist systems, suggesting an inherently exploitative relationship between animals and biopolitical capitalism.
Extent
219 p.
Recommended Citation
Cervone, Skye, "Living Capital: Situating Animals within Capitalist Modes of Production in Science Fiction" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 2213.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/2213
Identifier
FA00013364
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.