Embodied computing : wearables, implantables, embeddables, ingestibles / edited by Isabel Pedersen and Andrew Iliadis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pedersen, Isabel, editor.

Iliadis, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wearable technology.

Wearable computers.

Artificial intelligence.

Implants, Artificial.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Embodied technologies such as wearable tracking bracelets, ingestible sensors, embeddable prosthetics, and implantable microchips all stand to redefine the human experience and what it means to speak of technology and the body. No longer the speculative stuff of science fiction, embodied technologies have arrived and are being developed by a variety of industries at an alarming rate. Embodied technologies augment the body's phenomenological interaction with the world and depend on an agent's body to transmit energy and information. Varieties of wearable, ingestible, embeddable, and implantable technologies have become constitutive of new hybrid bodies, blurring the line separating the human from the technological. Yet, bodies constantly negotiate demands made by technology-both humanizing and dehumanizing. Embodied Technology: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles is a collection by key practitioners and theorists in the field and analyzes a variety of sociotechnical themes and devices as agents in dialogue with the human body and subjectivity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Computer Guts and Swallowed Sensors: Ingestibles Made Palatable in an Era of Embodied Computing p. 1 / Andrew Iliadis

2 Will the Body Become a Platform? Body Networks, Datafied Bodies, and Al Futures p. 21 / Isabel Pedersen

3 Wearable Devices: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Agential Capacities p. 49 / Deborah Lupton

4 Cyborg Experiments and Hybrid Beings p. 71 / Kevin Warwick

5 Überveillance and the Rise of Last-Mile Implantables: Past, Present, and Future p. 97 / Katina Michael and M. G. Michael and Christine Perakslis and Roba Abbas

6 Designing Technological Comportment: On Wearable Technology, Digital Rituals, and Non-Users p. 131 / Marcel O'Gorman

7 The Big Toe's Resistance to Smart Rehabilitations p. 149 / Gary Genosko

8 Doing Time in the Home-Space: Ankle Monitors, Script Analysis, and Anticipatory Methodology p. 161 / Suneel Jethani

9 Click-Click-Gimme-Gimme: Pleasures and Perils of the "Opt In" World of Fashion Tech p. 187 / Elizabeth Wissinger

10 TechnoSupremacy and the Final Frontier: Other Minds p. 211 / Maggie Orth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262538558

0262538555

OCLC:

1105746767

Publisher Number:

99984382881