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 ›corporate self‹ 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.
Introduction: Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self Kein Zugriff Seiten 7 - 14 Regina Schober, Ulfried Reichardt
Command and Control: The Quantified Self and Biomedical Transhumanism Kein Zugriff Seiten 15 - 40 Stefan Danter
Reconsidering Agency and Choice: The Office, the Wall, and the Tax Code (Herman Melville, "Bartleby" and David Foster Wallace, The Pale King) Kein Zugriff Seiten 41 - 60 Ulfried Reichardt
"To Be Reckoned in the Gross": Corporate Storytelling and Quantified Selves in Joshua Ferris''s Then We Came to the End Kein Zugriff Seiten 61 - 80 Stefanie Mueller
Racialized Self-Improvement: Advice in Black and White Self-Help of the Interwar Years Kein Zugriff Seiten 81 - 102 Kristina Graaff
The Solipsism of the Quantified Self: Working Bodies in David Foster Wallace''s Body of Work Kein Zugriff Seiten 103 - 122 Dominik Steinhilber
Reading Chick Lit through Numbers: Postfeminist Self-Quantification in Helen Fielding''s Bridget Jones''s Diary and Karyn Bosnak''s What''s Your Number? Kein Zugriff Seiten 123 - 140 Regina Schober
"I Track my Cycle Religiously": Representations of Fertility Tracking and Childlessness in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs Kein Zugriff Seiten 141 - 166 Dorothee Marx
Compulsive Self-Tracking: When Quantifying the Body Becomes an Addiction Kein Zugriff Seiten 167 - 188 Katharina Motyl
The Portable Peoplemeter Initiative: Wearable Sensor Technologies and Embodied Labor Kein Zugriff Seiten 189 - 214 Jennifer Hessler
Instant Nerve-Ana: Biofeedback as Quantified Self Avant la Lettre Kein Zugriff Seiten 215 - 238 Philipp Hauss
Contributors Kein Zugriff Seiten 239 - 246 Regina Schober, Ulfried Reichardt
