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Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self
Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self

Chapters in this book (14)

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self
Command and Control: The Quantified Self and Biomedical Transhumanism
Reconsidering Agency and Choice: The Office, the Wall, and the Tax Code (Herman Melville, “Bartleby” and David Foster Wallace, The Pale King)
“To Be Reckoned in the Gross”: Corporate Storytelling and Quantified Selves in Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End
Racialized Self-Improvement: Advice in Black and White Self-Help of the Interwar Years
The Solipsism of the Quantified Self: Working Bodies in David Foster Wallace’s Body of Work
Reading Chick Lit through Numbers: Postfeminist Self-Quantification in Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Karyn Bosnak’s What’s Your Number?
“I Track my Cycle Religiously”: Representations of Fertility Tracking and Childlessness in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
Compulsive Self-Tracking: When Quantifying the Body Becomes an Addiction
The Portable Peoplemeter Initiative: Wearable Sensor Technologies and Embodied Labor
Instant Nerve-Ana: Biofeedback as Quantified Self Avant la Lettre
Contributors
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