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The Economization of Life

Autor Michelle Murphy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 mai 2017
Michelle Murphy examines the ways in which efforts at population control since World War II have tied reproduction to neoliberal capitalism, showing how data collection practices have been used to quantify the value of a human life in terms of its ability to improve the nation-state's gross domestic product.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822363347
ISBN-10: 0822363348
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 173 x 233 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Bottles and Curves 1
Arc 1. Phantasmagrams of Population and Economy
1. Economy as Atmosphere 17
2. Demographic Transitions 35
3. Averted Birth 47
4. Dreaming Technoscience 55
Arc II. Reproducing Infrastructures
5. Infrastructures of Counting and Affect 59
6. Continuous Incitement 73
7. Experimental Exuberance 78
8. Dying, Not Dying, Not Being Born 95
9. Experimental Otherwise 105
Arc III. Investable Life
10. Invest in a Girl 113
11. Exhausting Data 125
12. Unaligned Feeling 133
Coda. Distributed Reproduction 135
Notes 147
Bibliography 179
Index 211

Notă biografică

Michelle Murphy is Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto and the author of Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Heath, and Technoscience and Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers, both also published by Duke University Press.