KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Focus On The Family
20 Apr 2016
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The continuous production, display, and incorporation of biometric data on every aspect of a person"s life. The social and cultural implication of quantified self. Growing movement and industry in voluntary self-tracking/ surveillance as part of managing and. Consequences of this are not trivial or natural. Technologies have an impact on our behaviors and how we understand ourselves and our bodies improving one"s life. This way of quantifying the self, limits our experiences. Takes away our sense of pleasure, and narrows it down to numbers. Stimulates a mistrust of your perceptions of your body"s sensations and emotions. A disembodied object objective, scientific/technological, and visual gaze is not just one way of leanring about the body, but it is the way. Feel guilty about eating bad meals for example, ignoring the pleasure of the meal. The body as fragmented (tells you about bp, but doesn"t account the circumstances of living). The body as a machine can be fixed, engineered, made better/upgraded.
