HISTORY 182A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cyborg, Public Health, Mobile App
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Selfhood in the age of data and media. How did the datafied world come into being. Making selves, making social order, making technologies together. Ever more intimate relations with our devices: the personal al who becomes almost a friend (hildebrand, alone together (tukle) = taking the place of our family and friends. The self- as constituted in relationship: through our social networks, through hybridization with the machine (cyborgs) Self- monitoring, self-tracking, and the quantified self. This is science, and it is fiction: part of the existing life world, part of the fantasy world, part of the future. What can we learn from cyborgs in their different incarnations: promises of augmentation, anxiety loss of human, potential obsolescence, what futures we can and can"t see know thyself constructing the self through data. Self-tracking as a classical practice of observing one"s interior life: self-scrutiny, self-improvement. Touches on elements of one model of the virtuous self: self-aware, rigorous, objective, disciplined, self-optimizing.
