Introduction: What is a Biopolitical Animal? - Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani Part I: The Animal of Biopolitics Chapter 1: Turning Back to Nature: Foucault and the Practice of Animality - Matthew Calarco Chapter 2: Community and Animality in the Ancient Cynics - Vanessa Lemm Chapter 3: Biopolitics of COVID-19 and the Space of Animals: A Planetary Perspective - Miguel Vatter Chapter 4: How to Chirp like a Cricket: Agamben and the Reversal of Anthropogenesis - Sergei Prozorov Chapter 5: Animality and Inoperativity: Interspecies Form-of-Life - Sherryl Vint Part II: Tales of Biopolitics and Animality Chapter 6: Restraining Biopolitics: On Dino Buzzati's Living Animals - Timothy Campbell Chapter 7: Cages and Mirrors: Mr. Palomar and the Albino Gorilla - Serenella Iovino Chapter 8: Bunnies and Biopolitics: Killing, Culling and Caring for Rabbits - David Redmalm and Erica von Essen Chapter 9: Deading Life and the Undying Animal: Necropolitics After the Factory Farm - James K. Stanescu Chapter 10: Factory Farms for Fishes: Aquaculture, Biopolitics and Resistance - Dinesh Wadiwel Part III: Reconceptualising Biopolitics Chapter 11: Imagining Liberation beyond Biopolitics: The Biopolitical 'War against Animals' and Strategies for Ending It - Zipporah Weisberg Chapter 12: Animal Magnetism: (Bio)Political Theologies Between the Creature and the Animal - Diego Rossello Chapter 13: Creaturely Biopolitics - Carlo Salzani Chapter 14: A Dog's Life: From the Biopolitical Animal to the Posthuman - Felice Cimatti Afterword: Locating Race and Animality amidst the Politics of Interspecies Life - Neel Ahuja Index.