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Cultural Techniques of Biosensing : A History of the Body in Error.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Neill, Christopher.
- Series:
- Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biosensors.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Against the emergence of "the Internet of Bodies," Christopher O'Neill presents an incisive long history of biosensing technologies from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.As O'Neill shows, sensor technologies work by failing--if their mode of measure never quite captures the body, this is a feature and not a bug.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Sensing Media Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Health
- One: The Educated Finger and the Blood That Wrote Its Own Record
- Two: Improper Touch
- Part II: Work
- Three: Post-Taylorism and Its Discontents
- Four: Taylorism Is Dead
- Part III: Home
- Five: On the "Magic" of Home Security
- Six: The "Servant Problem" and the Fleeting Home
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Series Pages
- Sensing Media Authors list
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Other Format:
- Print version: O'Neill, Christopher Cultural Techniques of Biosensing
- ISBN:
- 9781503647893
- OCLC:
- 1609715888
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