A key scientific publication demonstrates that the bio-physical composition of the broiler chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) represents a signal of the Anthropocene. This finding contributes to a wider body of evidence that locates the beginning of the Anthropocene in the mid-20th century, and is part of a broader intellectual project that seeks to establish and demarcate the Anthropocene as a new geological era. This paper takes a different tack. Treating Gallus gallus as an objective corollary for the Anthropocene, it positions the broiler chicken and the Anthropocene as an ontologically emergent nexus comprised of social–spatial relations, materialities, and practices. The paper then adopts critical nexus thinking to trace out the key relations and materialities, and their points of convergence, and underpinning extractivist ontologies that assemble into the chicken's body. Relations of particular concern include the processes that embody surplus value into the corporality of the chicken; the rationalisation and transformation of territories and landscapes into productive units of space, and the tightly coupled, interconnected flows of relations, materials, and coordinating technologies that comprise the ‘supply chain’. It argues that by using critical nexus thinking to identify and articulate these relations that assemble into Gallus gallus, it renders the Anthropocene legible. Such legibility in turn fosters geographical awareness and responsibility that might lead to the changes necessary to address the large-scale spatial inequalities from which the era stems and redress the consequences that the era might otherwise engender.

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肉鸡和人类世：使用批判性联系思维来解开家鸡的地理环境

一份重要的科学出版物表明，肉鸡 ( Gallus gallus domesticus ) 的生物物理成分代表了人类世的信号。这一发现有助于提供更广泛的证据来定位 20 世纪中叶人类世的开始，并且是旨在将人类世确立和划定为一个新的地质时代的更广泛的智力项目的一部分。这篇论文采取了不同的策略。治疗鸡胆作为人类世的客观推论，它将肉鸡和人类世定位为一个由社会-空间关系、物质性和实践组成的本体论新兴联系。然后，本文采用批判性联系思维来追踪关键关系和物质性，以及它们的交汇点，并支持组装到鸡体内的提取主义本体。特别关注的关系包括将剩余价值体现在鸡的肉体中的过程；领土和景观的合理化和转变为空间的生产单元，以及构成“供应链”的关系、材料和协调技术的紧密耦合、相互关联的流动。Gallus gallus，它使人类世清晰易读。这种易读性反过来培养了地理意识和责任感，这可能会导致必要的变化，以解决这个时代起源的大规模空间不平等，并纠正这个时代可能产生的后果。