Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: The Physical and the Automaton Introducing the Radical Dyad of the Non-human Chapter 2: Formalism of Materialist Reason Chapter 3: Subjectivity as Inherently Philosophical Entity and the Third Person’s Perspective Chapter 4: Homologies and Asymmetries between the Automata of Capital and Patriarchy Chapter 5: New Political Economy is Possible Only under the Condition of Abolishment of the Metaphysics of Animal-for-Killing References

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Drawing together key themes in Marxism, animal ethics and feminist critique, this book demonstrates that François Laruelle’s non-philosophy provides a diagnosis of, and correction to, capitalism’s destructive and exploitative relationship to animals.

About the Author

Katerina Kolozova is Director and Professor of Gender Studies and Philosophy at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Research and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University American College Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She is the author of The Cut of The Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy (2014).

Reviews

We admit that animals are sentient beings and that they have rights, but we always treat them as abstractions. Katerina Kolozova makes us understand that it is philosophy that induces this belief, because philosophy is a denial of animals as it has been a denial of women. Moreover, these denials are conditions of the closing of philosophical systems. Kolozova urges us to transform our conception of philosophy by relating it to new, more generous concepts of woman and animal.
*François Laruelle, author of Principles of Non-Philosophy, and Anne-Françoise Schmid, The New Centre for Research & Practice*

Capitalism’s Holocaust of Animals is a beautifully intense, challenging, and insightful bringing to bear of Laruellean non-philosophy, Marxism, feminism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis to the question of animal life under capitalism. Kolozova gives a spirited and utterly compelling defense of the claim that real human emancipation requires animal emancipation.
*Rick Elmore, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Appalachian State University, United States*

In this dense and compelling non-philosophical provocation, Kolozova persuasively argues that the complete expenditure of all animality (including humans, and those without language) is a precondition of capitalism and its metaphysics of self-sufficiency. Grounded in a Laruellian re-reading of Marx (that nonetheless strategically aligns itself with critical and anti-masculinist concepts like Haraway’s ‘cyborg’), this book tackles contemporary/popular accounts of humanism and post-humanism by offering a scathing critique of subjective philosophy and its logic of animal exploitation.
*Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Professor of Political Theory, Western University, Canada*