The human animal and the non-human: a capitalist oxymoron

Abstract

Millions of animals are exploited daily in the world due to the current productivist model, present in all possible aspects of exploitation. This article, therefore, is a bibliographical reflection developed in the long course of graduation in Humanities at the Federal University of Southern Bahia. The cited articles and books were chosen from search platforms and digital magazines such as Scielo, the Capes portal and others. Authors such as Slavoj Žižek propose a cynical notion immersed in human consciousness, just as Mark Fisher states that capitalism creates a realism that surpasses what is actually real, and that is how, day after day, animals are exploited in advertisements. , on packaging, on human food, in laboratories and in their own lives.