Measured Life in the Digital Age

Optimisation by Numbers

AvVera King,Benigna Gerisch

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This book examines both the productive and counterproductive dimensions of the increasing orientation towards digital figures.Building on findings of the transdisciplinary research project "The Measured Life", the book explores the social, cultural and psychological implications of digital optimisation. The study focuses on its effects across work and organisations, relationships in social media and bodily measurement practices such as self-tracking. Based on in-depth research, the authors analyse the connections between society and the individual, culture and psyche. The spheres investigated reveal incentives and risks embodied by digital technology that indicate shifts taking place in the culturally defined relations between social and individual pathology and normality.With new theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, The Measured Life in the Digital Age appeals to scholars in sociology, social theory, cultural studies and psychoanalysis, as well as anyone seeking to understand how digital optimisation influences our society, relationships and sense of self.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 International license.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-08-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Advances in Sociology
Antal sidor:226
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032647890

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Mer om författaren

Vera King is Professor of Sociology and Psychoanalytic Social Psychology at the Goethe University and Managing Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute (SFI), Frankfurt/M., Germany.Benigna Gerisch is Professor of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU), Berlin, Germany. She is a psychoanalyst and member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at the Schiller-University of Jena and Director of the Max-Weber-Center, Erfurt, Germany. He is the author of Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Introduction1. The Measured Life. Productive and Counterproductive Consequences of Quantification in Digitally Optimising SocietiesPart II. Social Relations in the Context of Digital Media2. Attention: Shared, Divided, Undivided. Cultural Change and Psychic Development in the Digital Age3. Modes of Resonance in the Age of Digitalisation4. Relationship Formation in the Context of Digital Change. Two Case Studies on Social Media and Self-Tracking5. “There is definitely something potentially addictive about it”. Self-Measurement as the New Digital NormalPart III. Dynamics of Parametric Optimisation: Digitalised Life Conduct, Work and Organisation6. Parametric Optimisation 7. Digital and Parametric Optimisation in the World of Work. An Overview of Research8. The Significance of Numbers in Digital Living and Working Environments. Ambivalent Meanings of Measurement and Comparison9. Social Problems Work in Local Governments. Quantification Practice in Demand and Resource PlanningPart IV. Digitally Measured Bodies (in the Context of Psychopathologies) 10. Self-Measurement as a Form of Optimisation and a Defensive Corset. Case Study of an avid Self-Tracker11. Quantifying Self-Quantification. A Statistical Study on Individual Characteristics and Motivations for Digital Self-Tracking in Young- and Middle-Aged Adults in Germany12. Between Vulnerable Receptivity and Avoidant Distancing. A Psychoanalytic Investigation of the Psychic Processing of Self-Tracking in Women with Bulimia13. Mirroring Recognition and Narcissistic Withdrawal. Psychodynamics of Self-Tracking in Burnout and DepressionPart V. Conclusion14. The Measured Life. New ‘Normalities’ and ‘Pathologies’ in Digital Society