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Numbered Lives - Life and Death in Quantum Media (Hardcover)
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Numbered Lives - Life and Death in Quantum Media (Hardcover)
Series: Numbered Lives
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A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories
behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and
weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American culture has used
media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical
journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death
registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily
steps with fitness trackers and quantify births and deaths with
digitized data. How are these present-day methods for measuring
ourselves similar to those used in the past? In this book,
Jacqueline Wernimont presents a new media history of western
quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and
technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and
realities. Numbered Lives is the first book of its kind, a feminist
media history that maps connections not only between past and
present-day "quantum media" but between media tracking and
long-standing systemic inequalities. Wernimont explores the history
of the pedometer, mortality statistics, and the census in England
and the United States to illuminate the entanglement of
Anglo-American quantification with religious, imperial, and
patriarchal paradigms. In Anglo-American culture, Wernimont argues,
counting life and counting death are sides of the same coin-one
that has always been used to render statistics of life and death
more valuable to corporate and state organizations. Numbered Lives
enumerates our shared media history, helping us understand our
digital culture and inheritance.
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