A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Self-tracking, Power, and the Transition from Discipline to Control
Authors: Vuorinen Jukka, Bergroth Harley
Editors: David Kreps, Taro Komukai, T. V. Gopal, Kaori Ishii
Conference name: International Conference on Human Choice and Computers
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Publication year: 2020
Journal: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Book title : Human-Centric Computing in a Data-Driven Society
Journal name in source: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume: 590
First page : 351
Last page: 360
ISBN: 978-3-030-62802-4
eISBN: 978-3-030-62803-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62803-1_28
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.