A4 Refereed article in a conference publication

Self-tracking, Power, and the Transition from Discipline to Control




AuthorsVuorinen Jukka, Bergroth Harley

EditorsDavid Kreps, Taro Komukai, T. V. Gopal, Kaori Ishii

Conference nameInternational Conference on Human Choice and Computers

PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Publication year2020

JournalIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Book title Human-Centric Computing in a Data-Driven Society

Journal name in sourceIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volume590

First page 351

Last page360

ISBN978-3-030-62802-4

eISBN978-3-030-62803-1

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62803-1_28


Abstract

This paper examines self-tracking as illustrative of the transition from Michel Foucault’s discipline society to the Gilles Deleuze’s control society. These two forms of societies both relate centrally to the organisation and (re)production of power relations, but they organise space and time in different ways. Self-tracking refers to data-driven practices of self-monitoring by digital devices, and the practice is here treated as an individual subjective activity, in which the self subjects itself with the help of a self-tracking device. Importantly, our claim is that this subjectivation takes place in the broader context of the control society and its increasingly data-driven character, in which traditional institutional discipline is being replaced by in principle unbounded regimes of (self-)control.



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