The Quantified Self and the Digital Making of the Subject

The Quantified Self website, created in 2008 by two Wired magazine editors, Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly, instigated a movement for the better understanding of the self, based on numbers (Lupton 2014). The site has indeed as its slogan: ‘self-knowledge through numbers’.¹ Such a self-knowledge was promo...

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Published inThe Digital Age and Its Discontents p. 95
Main Author Laurence Barry
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Helsinki University Press 11.08.2020
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