Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self

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, office work, and production are instrumental in redefining concepts of labor, including not...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reichardt, Ulfried
Otros Autores: Schober, Regina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, 2020.
Colección:American studies (Transcript (Firm))
Temas:
Human body > Social aspects > United States.
Self-monitoring > Social aspects > United States.
Labor > Social aspects > United States.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Human body in literature.
Self in literature.
Labor in literature.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
America.
American Studies.
Biopolitics.
Body.
Cultural Studies.
David Foster Wallace.
Fertility.
Herman Melville.
Labor.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Postfeminism.
Subjectivity.
US Fiction.
Monitorage de soi > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Travail > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Travail dans la littérature.
Actualisation de soi dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
American literature.
Human body > Social aspects.
Labor > Social aspects.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self
  • Command and Control: The Quantified Self and Biomedical Transhumanism
  • Reconsidering Agency and Choice: The Office, the Wall, and the Tax Code (Herman Melville, "Bartleby" and David Foster Wallace, The Pale King)
  • "To Be Reckoned in the Gross": Corporate Storytelling and Quantified Selves in Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End
  • Racialized Self-Improvement: Advice in Black and White Self-Help of the Interwar Years
  • The Solipsism of the Quantified Self: Working Bodies in David Foster Wallace's Body of Work
  • Reading Chick Lit through Numbers: Postfeminist Self-Quantification in Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary and Karyn Bosnak's What's Your Number?
  • "I Track my Cycle Religiously": Representations of Fertility Tracking and Childlessness in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
  • Compulsive Self-Tracking: When Quantifying the Body Becomes an Addiction
  • The Portable Peoplemeter Initiative: Wearable Sensor Technologies and Embodied Labor
  • Instant Nerve-Ana: Biofeedback as Quantified Self Avant la Lettre
  • Contributors

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