TY - BOOK ID - 85789939 TI - Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self AU - Ulfried Reichardt AU - Schober, Regina PY - 2020 SN - 3839449219 3837649210 PB - Bielefeld transcript Verlag DB - UniCat KW - Literature. KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - America. KW - American Studies. KW - Biopolitics. KW - Body. KW - Cultural Studies. KW - Labor. KW - Literary Studies. KW - Subjectivity. KW - US Fiction. KW - The Quantified Self; Body; Labor; Subjectivity; US Fiction; Literature; America; American Studies; Cultural Studies; Biopolitics; Literary Studies; David Foster Wallace; Postfeminism; Herman Melville; Fertility UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85789939 AB - The body has become central to practices of self-tracking. By focusing on the relations between quantification, the body, and labor, this volume sheds light on the ways in which discourses on data collection and versions of the ›corporate self‹ are instrumental in redefining concepts of labor, including notions of immaterial and free labor in an increasingly virtual work environment. The contributions explore the functions of quantification in conceptualizing the body as a laboring body and examine how quantification contributes to disciplining the body. By doing so, they also inquire how practices of self-tracking, self-monitoring, and self-optimization have evolved historically. ER -