TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Ruth A.
TI  - Flourishing Thought: Democracy in an Age of Data Hoards 
SN  - 9780472902330
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Political Science / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Political science
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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.
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/7ce41b00-04e5-4ed3-b52e-33ebfdb722ff
ER  -