Flourishing Thought : Democracy in an Age of Data Hoards / Ruth A. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Ruth Austin, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : University of Michigan Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Challenging the posthumanist canon that celebrates the preeminence of matter, Ruth Miller contends that what nonhuman systems contribute to democracy is thought. Drawing on recent feminist theories of nonhuman life and politics, Miller shows that reproduction and flourishing are not antithetical to contemplation and sensitivity. After demonstrating that processes of life and processes of thought are indistinguishable, Miller finds that four menacing accumulations of matter and information-global surveillance, stored embryos, human clones, and reproductive trash-are politically productive rather than threats to democratic politics. As a consequence, she questions the usefulness of individual rights such as privacy and dignity, contests the value of the rational metaphysics underlying human-centered political participation, and reevaluates the gender relations that derive from this type of participation.

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Description based on print version record.

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KU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103999

ISBN:

9780472902330

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9281987

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access