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SEVEN STORIES OF THREATENING SPEECH
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MEETS MACHINE CODE |
| By: |
Ruth A. Miller |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£25.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0472035282 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780472035281 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 January, 2013 |
| Pages: |
298 |
| Description: |
Treating language as a type of machine code opens new avenues for the study of history and politics |
| Synopsis: |
Ruth A. Miller demonstrates the potential of taking nonhuman linguistic activity--such as the running of machine code--as an analytical model. Via a lively discussion of 19th-century pro- and anti-suffragists, Miller tells a new computational story in which language becomes a thing that executes physically or mechanically through systems, networks, and environments, rather than a form for human recognition or representation. Language might be better understood as something that operates but never communicates, that sorts, stores, or reproduces information but never transmits meaning. Miller makes a compelling case that the work that speech has historically done is in need of re-evaluation. She severs the link between language and human as well as nonhuman agency, between speech acts and embodiment, and she demonstrates that current theories of electoral politics have missed a key issue: the nonhuman, informational character of threatening linguistic activity.This book thus represents a radical methodological initiative not just for scholars of history and language but for specialists in law, political theory, political science, gender studies, semiotics, and science and technology studies.It takes post-humanist scholarship to an exciting and essential, if sometimes troubling, conclusion. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press |
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Returnable |
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