Laboring bodies and the quantified self

Crawley, Michael

doi:10.1080/14636778.2022.2029694

Laboring bodies and the quantified self

Crawley, Michael

Authors

Dr Michael Crawley michael.p.crawley@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor

Abstract

How has the laboring body become so central to regimes of quantification and measurement, and how has this played out in literary and cultural representations of the quantified self? Through tracing narratives of entanglement of data and selves that predate current discourses of self-quantification (often by decades), this collection of essays makes an extremely important contribution to our understanding of quantification, datafication and subject formation. The central tensions of the quantified self (QS) movement – that self-tracking can inhibit as much as it enlightens and provoke feelings of anxiety as much as a control – are thus shown to have a long, rich and wide-ranging history, traceable through self-help columns, graphic memoirs and novels as well as devices.

Citation

Crawley, M. (2022). Laboring bodies and the quantified self. New Genetics and Society, 41(1), 66-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2022.2029694

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Jan 31, 2022
Publication Date	2022-01
Deposit Date	Feb 18, 2022
Publicly Available Date	Feb 18, 2022
Journal	New Genetics and Society
Print ISSN	1463-6778
Electronic ISSN	1469-9915
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	41
Issue	1
Pages	66-68
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2022.2029694

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