Academic Writing

Object Oriented Inquiry and the Quantified Self: How The Body Became An Object of Experience And Experiencing Object

Thinking Technology
Prof. Eugene Thacker, PhD

Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things: it is caught in the Fabric of the world.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Eye and Mind” … Object Oriented Inquiry and the Quantified Self: How The Body Became An Object of Experience And Experiencing Object

Academic Writing

Forms of technological embodiment: Reading the body through self-tracking devices

Digital Media Theory
Prof. Christiane Paul, PhD

ABSTRACT

While the concept of self-tracking is not particularly new, a movement labeled Quantified Self (QS) represents a newly emerged approach to discussions of how to optimize one’s life in the best possible way. … Forms of technological embodiment: Reading the body through self-tracking devices