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Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self

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American Culture Studies, Volume 27
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 2020

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Edition
1/2020
Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-3-8376-4921-5
ISBN-Online
978-3-8394-4921-9
Publisher
transcript, Bielefeld
Series
American Culture Studies
Volume
27
Language
English
Pages
246
Product type
Edited Book

Table of contents

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  1. Frontmatter Full access Pages 1 - 4 Regina Schober, Ulfried Reichardt Download chapter (PDF)
  2. Contents Full access Pages 5 - 6 Regina Schober, Ulfried Reichardt Download chapter (PDF)
  3. Introduction: Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self No access Pages 7 - 14 Regina Schober, Ulfried Reichardt
  4. Command and Control: The Quantified Self and Biomedical Transhumanism No access Pages 15 - 40 Stefan Danter
  5. Reconsidering Agency and Choice: The Office, the Wall, and the Tax Code (Herman Melville, "Bartleby" and David Foster Wallace, The Pale King) No access Pages 41 - 60 Ulfried Reichardt
  6. "To Be Reckoned in the Gross": Corporate Storytelling and Quantified Selves in Joshua Ferris''s Then We Came to the End No access Pages 61 - 80 Stefanie Mueller
  7. Racialized Self-Improvement: Advice in Black and White Self-Help of the Interwar Years No access Pages 81 - 102 Kristina Graaff
  8. The Solipsism of the Quantified Self: Working Bodies in David Foster Wallace''s Body of Work No access Pages 103 - 122 Dominik Steinhilber
  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? No access Pages 123 - 140 Regina Schober
  10. "I Track my Cycle Religiously": Representations of Fertility Tracking and Childlessness in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs No access Pages 141 - 166 Dorothee Marx
  11. Compulsive Self-Tracking: When Quantifying the Body Becomes an Addiction No access Pages 167 - 188 Katharina Motyl
  12. The Portable Peoplemeter Initiative: Wearable Sensor Technologies and Embodied Labor No access Pages 189 - 214 Jennifer Hessler
  13. Instant Nerve-Ana: Biofeedback as Quantified Self Avant la Lettre No access Pages 215 - 238 Philipp Hauss
  14. Contributors No access Pages 239 - 246 Regina Schober, Ulfried Reichardt

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