ABSTRACT
Predatory drift is a seemingly artificial narrative, contrived in part on the basis of a deterministic biologism when it comes to all sorts of potentially creative excess. In terms of the theory of predatory drift in the context of dog training discourse, this is unashamedly a theory based upon the premise of an animalistic narrative of return to instinct. Property discourse thus assumes a “natural” progression towards the rivalrous, competitive, combative model articulated around a prize of things, when in fact there are many other systems of property that are possible without appropriating the fantastic fiction of predatory drift and acquisitive instinct. Thorstein Veblen’s analysis of the predatory phase of culture implies a similar kind of drift as that described in the context of dog behaviour, driven by the presumed evolutionary imperative of competition and survival.
