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What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at go...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Murphy, Michelle (Claudette Michelle) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
83.05.
Kommerzialisierung
Frau
Familienplanung
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Bevölkerungspolitik
Demographie
Weltbevölkerung
Population policy.
Fertility, Human > Social aspects.
Fertility, Human > Political aspects.
Family policy > Economic aspects.
Fecondite humaine > Aspect social.
Fecondite humaine > Aspect politique.
Politique familiale > Aspect economique.
Planification familiale > Aspect economique.
Family planning > Economic aspects.
Bangladesch
United States.
Bangladesh.
Bangladesh > Population policy.
United States > Population policy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Arc I: Phantasmagrams of population and economy
  • Economy as atmosphere
  • Demographic transitions
  • Averted birth
  • Dreaming technoscience
  • Arc II: Reproducing infrastructures
  • Infrastructures of counting and affect
  • Continuous incitement
  • Experimental exuberance
  • Dying, not dying, not being born
  • Experimental otherwise
  • Arc III: Investable life
  • Invest in a girl
  • Exhausting data
  • Unaligned feeling
  • Coda: Distributed reproduction.

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