Technological society and the quantified self, a powerful structure of physical alienation
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heidegger.
being aware of the role of technology, at the same time saying yes and no to technology. the example of japanese society, applying the efficiency model where it works, and keeping parallelly a spiritual non-technicity.
a critique of technolgical intrusiveness from a feminist perspective smartmom.cyberfeminism.net a project about regular ecographies, another technological invasion of the body.
the artist body as a technolgoical public body.
communication props change the type of distance and separation between bodies.
the proble is not so much the quantification as a problem in for example becoming data that influences social security, governmentality etc, but the very quantification as a relation to the body and the self.
as long as these new ways to relate to the body respect the existing relations to the body its not a problem, but it is when the issue of the interaction between the two is not voiced and quantification just becomes the most efficient way to deal with the self.
