'Computable Bodies' by Josh Berson - 20% off for all QS members!

Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche by Josh Berson

Available at 20% off paperback & eBook for all QS members until the end of March 2017! Just enter the discount code QUANTIFIEDSELF17 at checkout. (RRP £21.99 / $29.95)

Data. Suddenly it is everywhere, and more and more of it is about us.

In Computable Bodies, anthropologist Josh Berson asks how the data revolution is changing what it means to be human. Drawing on fieldwork in the Quantified Self and polyphasic sleeping communities and integrating perspectives from interaction design, the history and philosophy of science, and medical and linguistic anthropology, he probes a world where everyday life is mediated by a proliferating array of sensor montages, where we adjust our social signals to make them legible to algorithms, and where our capacity to generate data is reconfiguring the body-world interface in ways scarcely imaginable a generation ago.

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Hi Josh - Thanks for posting this. I ordered the book and remember your talks very well from the last conference in Amsterdam. Are you going this year? Maybe you can update…

Hi Gary, it’s actually Bloomsbury Linguistics here, posting on behalf of Josh. If you’d like to contact him directly his website has the details: https://joshberson.net/

Rats - I thought he’d shown up!