Animal studies ¹ is expanding rapidly throughout academia. In our editors’ introduction to Kim Socha’s book Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation (Pedersen and Stanescu 2012), we ask into what circuits of the knowledge economy animal studies scholarship actually feeds, when global institutionalized animal use and abuse shows no sign of decline but rather continues to take on new and creatively oppressive forms.