Chickens have become emblematic of the Anthropocene: They embody the age of acceleration, (post-) industrial value, and intensification in scientific and technological knowledge and practice. Contemporary chickens are the bearers of significant genetic and nutritional knowledge, experimented upon and 'tweaked' so much so that some have denied that contemporary commercial chickens are chickens at all. This article reconsiders chickens through a metabolic lens, and the notion of metabolism through chickens, arguing that attending to chickens opens up new conceptualizations of life and labour in the metabosphere. The article tells a metabolic history of chickens from ornament to enclosed monocrop, by way of the laboratory and nutritional experiments. Then, it looks at chicken metabolism in three conceptual modes: first, as a conduit for value, metabolizing and enhancing human life for the past century; second, through technological innovations extending the gut outside chickens' immobilized bodies; and third, through the planetary impacts of metabolic porosity in geological manifestations, toxic atmospheres, and viral overflow. Ultimately, this article shows how techno-scientific production of chickens has taken place in and created the metabosphere as a site of experimentation and exploitation.

中文翻译：

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鸡的新陈代谢、固定化和后工业化生产。


鸡已成为人类世的象征：它们体现了加速时代、（后）工业价值以及科技知识和实践的集约化。当代鸡承载着重要的遗传和营养知识，经过如此多的实验和“调整”，以至于有些人否认当代商业鸡根本就是鸡。本文从代谢的角度重新审视鸡，以及通过鸡进行新陈代谢的概念，认为照顾鸡开启了代谢圈中生命和劳动的新概念。文章通过实验室和营养实验讲述了鸡从观赏鸡到封闭式单一作物的代谢史。然后，它从三种概念模式来看待鸡的新陈代谢：第一，作为价值的渠道，新陈代谢和增强了上个世纪人类的生命；其次，通过技术创新将肠道延伸到鸡固定的身体之外；第三，通过地质表现、有毒大气和病毒溢出的代谢孔隙对地球的影响。最终，本文展示了鸡的科学技术生产是如何在代谢圈中发生和创造的，作为实验和开发的场所。