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Computable Bodies - Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche (Hardcover)
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Computable Bodies - Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
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Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Language and Linguistics Data.
Suddenly it is everywhere, and more and more of it is about us. The
computing revolution has transformed our understanding of nature.
Now it is transforming human behaviour. For some, pervasive
computing offers a powerful vehicle of introspection and
self-improvement. For others it signals the arrival of a dangerous
'control society' in which surveillance is no longer the
prerogative of discrete institutions but a simple fact of life. In
Computable Bodies, anthropologist Josh Berson asks how the data
revolution is changing what it means to be human. Drawing on
fieldwork in the Quantified Self and polyphasic sleeping
communities and integrating perspectives from interaction design,
the history and philosophy of science, and medical and linguistic
anthropology, he probes a world where everyday life is mediated by
a proliferating array of sensor montages, where we adjust our
social signals to make them legible to algorithms, and where old
rubrics for gauging which features of the world are animate no
longer hold. Computable Bodies offers a vision of an anthropology
for an age in which our capacity to generate data and share it over
great distances is reconfiguring the body-world interface in ways
scarcely imaginable a generation ago.
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