TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Ruth Austin
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Flourishing Thought : : Democracy in an Age of Data Hoards / 
SN  - 9780472122301
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - fast
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - History & Theory
KW  - Theorie feministe
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 1. Introduction; 2. Boundless Thought; 3. Embryos; 4. Clones; 5. Trash; 6. Data Hoards; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Open Access
N2  - "Challenging the posthumanist canon which celebrates the pre-eminence of matter, Ruth Miller, inFlourishingThoughtargues 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 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 re-evaluates the gender relations that derive from this type of participation. Ultimately, in place of these human-centered structures, Miller posits a more meditative mode of democratic engagement. Miller's argument has shattering implications for the debates over the proper use and disposal of embryonic tissue, alarms about data gathering by the state and corporations, and other major ethical, social, and security issues"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/48083/
ER  -