VALUE-ADDED DOGS AND LIVELY CAPITAL 67
ceamemporary mans tobe true subjects with real histories. But what docs subject
Dar iho A a ry mean when the rules are changed lke this? Wedo not get very far
48, cho whole poinc ita. make pirat by 1 ig babies. Capiral e categories generally used by animal rights discourses, in which
volumen 13, did! not cower iat foie, al, volume 1, must do s¢ end up permanent dependents (“lesser hi
two coins, Thompann nets out the following lists, which imart), oF exactly the same
borrow, abbreviate, and abuses?
Production
vimans"), utterly natural
“children” I have stressed dogs as
nd commodities but rejected the analogies of wage labor, slay.
slopendent ward, and non! ‘ing property. | have insisted chat dogs are
to be models and technologies, patients and reformers, consumers
Hvedwealth, but am needy for ways to specify these matrets ia nom,
Nat terms in which specific difference is at least as cr
imilavities across kinds,
a volume x, cannot be weitten just with dogs and people, T
ny disappointment in this sad face by rejoicing in the work
Fellow animal (and over critcs) studies and lively eapital analysts
Weworlds and disciplines? Mase of ll, Tam convinced thae actual
"ats whac make beings; this is the ontological choreography
our value-added dogs in the lfeworlds of biocapi
Life course finite and descent
linear course and descent i
al as conti-
Essentialism of natural kinds/social Strategic naturalization/
construction of social kinds soci
In practice, parents-in-the-making solectively seck out, endure, elabor
and narrate various objectifications and commodifications of theit
parts. Women do this mach more than men do because of the flesh
es of assisted conception and gestation, Many sorts of social stratif
tion and injustice are in play, but chey are often not of the kinds found
those seeking theic fix of outrage whenever they smell the commodif
tion of humans or part humans, Properly assigned,
i parents content with heir objectifications, Other actors in this
of reproduction may be made invisible in order to ensute their scat
sonkin and as reproductively impotent. The lure of kin making is
name of this promissory game of reproduction.
Tam incerested in these matters when the kin-making beingsave
{I human and literal children or parents are not the issue. Comp:
species are the issue, They are the promise, the process, and the pr
These matters are mundane, and this chapeer haa been replete with
ples. Add to chose many more proliferations of naturalsocial rel:
ties in compsnion-species world
waysin the regime of lively capi
pproacl
al reality of face-to: fice, benkpeimeliody mabject
‘088 species is denied on " alectring that