Michelle Murphy

The Economization of Life

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363453
• ISBN-10: 0822363453
• Artikelnr.: 45508412

Autorenporträt

Michelle Murphy

Inhaltsangabe

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