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Von Fitnessstudios über Schlaf-Apps bis hin zu Heilsteinen - das Streben nach Selbstoptimierung hat einen festen Platz in der Alltagskultur der Gegenwart. Was unter dem ubiquitären Begriff zu verstehen ist, wird allerdings kontrovers diskutiert. Selbstoptimierung provoziert: Kritiker*innen lehnen sie als Teil eines neoliberalen Zwangs ab, Befürworter*innen deuten sie als Ausdruck von Autonomie. Die Beiträger*innen des interdisziplinären Bandes differenzieren den Diskurs über die Selbstoptimierung: Sie hinterfragen gegenwärtige Wertungsmuster, heben Ambiguitäten und Brüche hervor und decken die kulturelle Komplexität des Phänomens auf.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Autonomy. --- Behaviour Modification. --- Body. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Culture. --- Digitalization. --- Gender Studies. --- Individualization. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Neoliberalism. --- Self Management. --- Technology.

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In der geschäftigen modernen Welt ist der Mensch zunehmend auf der Suche nach dem, was noch möglich ist: Welche Chancen bieten sich noch? Welche verborgenen Fähigkeiten wollen geweckt werden? Die Suche nach dem ungelebten Leben, nach den »Potentialen« ist symptomatisch für unsere Zeit. Florian Heßdörfer hinterfragt mit seiner genealogischen Rekonstruktion dieses Narrativ und seine Geschichte. Dabei wird deutlich, wie sich die Figur des individuellen Potentials als pädagogisches Leitmotiv etabliert, das die Verschiedenheit der Menschen thematisiert und ihre leistungsorientierte Integration in produktive Gemeinschaften organisiert.

Potential; Suche; Bildung; Individualisierung; Begabung; Moderne; Leistung; Chancen; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungstheorie; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogik; Education; Individualization; Talent; Modernity; Performance; Chances; History of Education; Theory of Education; Educational Research; Pedagogy --- Chances. --- Education. --- Educational Research. --- History of Education. --- Individualization. --- Modernity. --- Pedagogy. --- Performance. --- Talent. --- Theory of Education.

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Immer schneller, weiter, mehr! Bei diesem leistungsorientierten Diktum sind arbeitsbezogene Gesundheitsgefahren allgegenwärtig. Sozialpolitisch wird deren Vorbeugung in der betrieblichen Prävention fokussiert, die traditionell an der Unfallverhütung und der männlichen Industriearbeit orientiert ist. Im Kontrast dazu steht die Forderung spätmoderner Dienstleistungsgesellschaften nach mehr Flexibilität und Einsatzbereitschaft. Marie Jelenko untersucht, wie die Bewältigung von erhöhten Anforderungen und das damit verbundene Gesundheitsrisiko auf den Schultern des Individuums abgeladen wird.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Economic Sociology. --- Economy. --- Health. --- Individualization. --- Medicine. --- Occupational Safety. --- Open Children and Youth Work. --- Service. --- Social Policy. --- Sociology of Medicine. --- Sociology of Organizations. --- Sociology of Work and Industry. --- Sociology. --- Work.

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How youth on the autism spectrum negotiate the contested meanings of neurodiversityAutism is a deeply contested condition. To some, it is a devastating invader, harming children and isolating them. To others, it is an asset and a distinctive aspect of an individual's identity. How do young people on the spectrum make sense of this conflict, in the context of their own developing identity? While most of the research on Asperger's and related autism conditions has been conducted with individuals or in settings in which people on the spectrum are in the minority, this book draws on two years of ethnographic work in communities that bring people with Asperger's and related conditions together. It can thus begin to explore a form of autistic culture, through attending to how those on the spectrum make sense of their conditions through shared social practices.Elizabeth Fein brings her many years of experience in both clinical psychology and psychological anthropology to analyze the connection between neuropsychological difference and culture. She argues that current medical models, which espouse a limited definition, are ill equipped to deal with the challenges of discussing autism-related conditions. Consequently, youths on the autism spectrum reach beyond medicine for their stories of difference and disorder, drawing instead on shared mythologies from popular culture and speculative fiction to conceptualize their experience of changing personhood. In moving and persuasive prose, Living on the Spectrum illustrates that young people use these stories to pioneer more inclusive understandings of what makes us who we are.

Youth. --- Speculative fiction. --- Special education. --- Social skills. --- Social capital. --- School-based ethnography. --- Neurostructural. --- Neuroscience. --- Neurodiversity. --- Neurodevelopmental. --- Neurodevelopmental turn. --- Neurochemical. --- Neural plasticity. --- Looping effects. --- Live-action roleplaying games. --- Late modernity. --- LARP. --- Institutional individualization. --- Individualism. --- Identity. --- Fantasy. --- Ethnography. --- Divided medicalization. --- Developmental disability. --- Connectome. --- Clinical ethnography. --- Cerebral subjectification. --- Brainhood. --- Autism. --- Affinity group;Aspergers. --- Affinity group. --- Aspergers. --- Identity (Philosophical concept). --- Developmental disabilities.

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The successes and failures of an industry that claims to protect and promote our online identitiesWhat does privacy mean in the digital era? As technology increasingly blurs the boundary between public and private, questions about who controls our data become harder and harder to answer. Our every web view, click, and online purchase can be sold to anyone to store and use as they wish. At the same time, our online reputation has become an important part of our identity—a form of cultural currency.The Identity Trade examines the relationship between online visibility and privacy, and the politics of identity and self-presentation in the digital age. In doing so, Nora Draper looks at the revealing two-decade history of efforts by the consumer privacy industry to give individuals control over their digital image through the sale of privacy protection and reputation management as a service.Through in-depth interviews with industry experts, as well as analysis of media coverage, promotional materials, and government policies, Draper examines how companies have turned the protection and promotion of digital information into a business. Along the way, she also provides insight into how these companies have responded to and shaped the ways we think about image and reputation in the digital age.Tracking the successes and failures of companies claiming to control our digital ephemera, Draper takes us inside an industry that has commodified strategies of information control. This book is a discerning overview of the debate around who controls our data, who buys and sells it, and the consequences of treating privacy as a consumer good.

Information technology --- Consumer protection --- Data protection --- Privacy --- Internet industry --- Social aspects --- Anonymizer. --- Commodification. --- Cypherpunks. --- Digital culture. --- Environmental movement. --- Government regulation. --- Image promotion. --- Individualization. --- Industry ethics. --- Industry self-regulation. --- Infomediaries. --- Internet. --- Managed visibility. --- Neoliberalism. --- Online reputation management. --- Personal data ecosystem. --- Personal data. --- Personal information. --- Political economy. --- Public pedagogy. --- Search engine optimization. --- Self-branding. --- Self-knowledge. --- Self-presentation. --- Self-tracking. --- Strategic transparency. --- Surveillance. --- Technology. --- Visibility. --- media. --- self-discovery. --- technology industries.