Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self

In: American Culture Studies v.27

Abstract

Cover -- 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.