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Self-Monitoring

Embodying Data and Obliviating the lived body!?

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The article considers the new culture of self-tracking in the frame of Foucault-inspired gouvernmentality studies. Following this, an empirical extension to these diagnoses is suggested to illustrate that numerical practices have the potential to affect the duality between the lived body and the corporeal body.

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    Lisa Wiedemann

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Wiedemann, L. (2016). Self-Monitoring. In: Selke, S. (eds) Lifelogging. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13137-1_11

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