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ERIC Number: EJ1167548
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0159-6306
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The Biosocial Subject: Sensor Technologies and Worldly Sensibility
de Freitas, Elizabeth
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v39 n2 p292-308 2018
Sensor technologies are increasingly part of everyday life, embedded in buildings (movement, sound, temperature) and worn on persons (heart rate, electro-dermal activity, eye tracking). This paper presents a theoretical framework for research on computational sensor data. My approach moves away from theories of agent-centered perceptual synthesis (on behalf of a perceiving organism) and towards a more expansive understanding of the biosocial learning environment. The focus is on sensor technologies that track sensation below the bandwidth of human consciousness. I argue that there is an urgent need to reclaim this kind of biodata as part of an unequally distributed worldly sensibility, and to thereby undermine more narrow reductive readings of such data. The paper explores the biopolitical implications of recasting biodata in terms of trans-individual inhuman forces, while continuing to track the distinctive power of humans.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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