This paper is concerned with the affective economies of lively capital. Its central argument is that nonhuman life itself has become a locus of accumulation, marked by an atmospheric politics of capital: the intensification of relations between life and productivity by incorporating entire lifeworlds into regimes of generating value. Focusing on the Giant panda – a spectacular icon raising millions of dollars globally – the paper first examines junctures at which their charismatic affects emerge and are manipulated to produce value. Turning to panda lifeworlds in zoos, it then shows how such value production is contingent on affective labours nonhumans perform in captivity. Nonhuman labour, as a component of atmospheric politics, enables understanding how lively capital is produced and reproduced, a theme interrogated through a critical analysis of the commercial global circulation of pandas. The paper develops the concept of atmospheric politics – an intervention in an animal's milieu and its affective intensities – as a means for analysing the dynamics of lively capital. Atmospheric politics retrieves a critical political economy obscured by the concept of nonhuman charisma, and restages biopower as an apparatus and political technology of capital.

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情感经济，大熊猫和活跃资本的大气政治

本文涉及活泼资本的情感经济。其中心论点是，非人类生活本身已成为一种积累的场所，其特征是大气的资本政治：通过将整个生活世界纳入产生价值的制度中，生活与生产力之间的关系得到加强。本文着眼于大熊猫-一个在全球范围内筹集了数百万美元的壮观偶像-该论文首先考察了其魅力产生并被操纵以产生价值的时刻。转到动物园中的熊猫生活世界，它然后说明了这种价值生产如何取决于非人类在人工饲养下所进行的情感劳动。非人间劳动是大气政治的组成部分，可以帮助人们了解如何产生和再生产生动的资本，通过对熊猫全球商业流通的批判性分析来审视这个主题。本文提出了大气政治的概念，即对动物环境及其情感强度的干预，以此作为分析活跃资本动态的一种手段。大气政治重新获得了非人类魅力概念所掩盖的重要政治经济学，并重新利用了生物力量作为资本的一种手段和政治技术。