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The Biopolitics of Embryos and Alphabets
A Reproductive History of the Nonhuman
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In recent decades there has been an explosion in work in the social and physical sciences describing the similarities between human and nonhuman as well as human and non-animal thinking. This work has explicitly decentered the brain as the sole, self-contained space of thought, and it has found thinking to be an activity that operates not only across bodies but also across bodily or cellular membranes, as well as multifaceted organic and inorganic environments. For
example, researchers have looked at the replication and spread of slime molds (playfully asking what would happen if they colonized the earth) to suggest that they exhibit 'smart behavior' in the way they move as a potential way of considering the spread of disease across the globe. Other scholars
have applied this model of non-human thought to the reach of data mining and global surveillance.

In The Biopolitics of Alphabets and Embryos, Ruth Miller argues that these types of phenomena are also useful models for thinking about the growth, reproduction, and spread of political thought and democratic processes. Giving slime, data and unbounded entities their political dues, Miller stresses their thinking power and political significance and thus challenges the anthropocentrism of mainstream democratic theories. Miller emphasizes the non-human as highly organized, systemic and
productive of democratic growth and replication. She examines developments such as global surveillance, embryonic stem cell research, and cloning, which have been characterized as threats to the privacy, dignity, and integrity of the rational, maximizing and freedom-loving democratic citizen. By shifting her
level of analysis from the politics of self-determining subjects to the realm of material environments and information systems, Miller asks what might happen if these alternative, nonhuman thought processes become the normative thought processes of democratic engagement.


Contents:

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Feminist Theory and the Politics of Life
Chapter 2: Nonhuman Nostalgia
Chapter 3: Embryos
Chapter 4: Alphabets
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index


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ISBN-13: 9780190638351
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Publication date: September, 2017
Pages: 200
Dimensions: 156.00 x 236.00 x 18.00
Weight: 478g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Microbiology, Reproductive Medicine
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