The biosocial subject

Sensor Technologies and Worldly Sensibility

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ID2930337
AuthorsE De Freitas (0000-0003-0795-8804, Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume39
Issue2
Pages292-308
Publication date2018-03-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2018.1404199
OpenAlexW2775649034
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited48

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

Aesthetics · Art · Biosocial theory · Cognitive science · Consciousness · Epistemology · Expansive · Perception · Performative utterance · Personality · Sensibility · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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