Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self
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Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self

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Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self

About this book

The body has become central to practices of self-tracking. By focusing on the relations between quantification, the body, and labor, this volume sheds light on the ways in which discourses on data collection and versions of the â€școrporate selfâ€č are instrumental in redefining concepts of labor, including notions of immaterial and free labor in an increasingly virtual work environment. The contributions explore the functions of quantification in conceptualizing the body as a laboring body and examine how quantification contributes to disciplining the body. By doing so, they also inquire how practices of self-tracking, self-monitoring, and self-optimization have evolved historically.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction: Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self
  4. Command and Control: The Quantified Self and Biomedical Transhumanism
  5. Reconsidering Agency and Choice: The Office, the Wall, and the Tax Code (Herman Melville, “Bartleby” and David Foster Wallace, The Pale King)
  6. “To Be Reckoned in the Gross”: Corporate Storytelling and Quantified Selves in Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End
  7. Racialized Self-Improvement: Advice in Black and White Self-Help of the Interwar Years
  8. The Solipsism of the Quantified Self: Working Bodies in David Foster Wallace’s Body of Work
  9. Reading Chick Lit through Numbers: Postfeminist Self-Quantification in Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Karyn Bosnak’s What’s Your Number?
  10. “I Track my Cycle Religiously”: Representations of Fertility Tracking and Childlessness in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
  11. Compulsive Self-Tracking: When Quantifying the Body Becomes an Addiction
  12. The Portable Peoplemeter Initiative: Wearable Sensor Technologies and Embodied Labor
  13. Instant Nerve-Ana: Biofeedback as Quantified Self Avant la Lettre
  14. Contributors