252 11 Ideological Monkey Wrenching: Nonhuman Animal Politics beyond Suffering Lauren Corman his chapter asks critical animal studies scholars, intersectional nonhuman animal advocates, and anyone who recognizes that proit drives the over- whelming majority of violence against other animals to take seriously their exploitation while refusing to reduce nonhuman animal subjectivities to representations of sufering and victimization. his kind of beyond sufer- ing approach, which some advocates and scholars may see as iddling while Rome burns, is a necessary antidote to capitalist objectiication of nonhu- man animals. hat said, sufering should not be dismissed or neglected in eforts to end exploitation. Rather, we must discuss sufering, but we should do so in conjunction with other, richer versions of other animals’ experi- ences beyond sufering. his including but beyond sufering approach strongly resonates with other social justice movements that have long resisted both the homogeni- zation and the reductionism of various subjects to pure victims. hese movements, which have fought hard against dehumanization, recognize that objectiication manifests as denial of full or even partial subjectivity and thus exclusion from the realm of full humanity. Objecti ication, and -1— 0— +1— Nibert_V2_2nd Pass.indd 252 7/6/17 5:56 PM