Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche
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Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche

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ISBN-13: 9781472532732 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication date: 11/19/2015 Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics Pages: 208 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d) 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 m

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