2(1) 2016: Quantified Selves
This issue provides methodological and theoretical reflections on technologically generated knowledge about the body and socio-cultural practices that are subsumed, discussed, and criticized using the key concept »Quantified Self«.
Introduction. The Quantified Self and Statistical Bodies
S. 5-21
I. Situating the Quantified Self Phenomenon
From Quantified to Qualified Self. A Fictional Dialogue at the Mall
S. 25-40
Total Affect Control. Or: Who’s Afraid of a Pleasing Little Sister?
S. 41-52
Theorising the Quantified Self and Posthumanist Agency. Self-Knowledge and Posthumanist Agency in Contemporary US-American Literature
S. 53-67
II. Investigations in Quantifying Practices
Bodies, Mood and Excess. Relationship Tracking and the Technicity of Intimacy
S. 71-88
Unhappy? There’s an App for That. Tracking Well-Being through the Quantified Self
S. 89-103
III. Conceptual and Legal Reflections
Casual Power. Understanding User Interfaces through Quantification
S. 107-122
My Quantified Self, my FitBit and I. The Polymorphic Concept of Health Data and the Sharer’s Dilemma
S. 123-142
IV. Entering the Field
How Old am I? Digital Culture and Quantified Ageing
S. 145-152
Games to Live With. Speculations Regarding NikeFuel
S. 153-159
Quantified Bodies. A Design Practice
S. 161-167
Quantified Faces. On Surveillance Technologies, Identification and Statistics in Three Contemporary Art Projects
S. 169-176
Coupling Quantified Bodies. Affective Possibilities of Self-Quantification beyond the Self
S. 177-182
V. In Conversation with
I Think it Worked Because Mercury was in the House of Jupiter! Tega Brain and Surya Mattu in Conversation with Pablo Abend and Mathias Fuchs
S. 184-193