quantified self-city-nation

QuantifiedSelf-City-NationMatthew W. Wilson, PhDHarvard UniversityUniversity of Kentuckymatthew_wilson@harvard.edu@wilsonism

25 March 2014The Programmable City

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QuantifiedSelf-City-Nationmulti-scalar system of attentional control

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QuantifiedSelf-City-Nationmulti-scalar system of attentional controlwhere the organization of a body

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QuantifiedSelf-City-Nationmulti-scalar system of attentional controlwhere the organization of a bodybecomes the mimetic resourcefor the organization of bodies

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QuantifiedSelf-City-Nationmulti-scalar system of attentional controlwhere the organization of a bodybecomes the mimetic resourcefor the organization of bodies

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What might we learn about the social-cultural and political implications for this refiguring of spatial thought and action?

What capacities are reinforced and developed through the implementation of these

technologies and techniques?

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Movement and stasis.Analysis and visualization.Decision making and behavioral change.

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“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.”

(de Certeau 1984: 129)

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“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.”

(de Certeau 1984: 129)

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“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.”

(de Certeau 1984: 129)

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“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.”

(de Certeau 1984: 129)

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“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.”

(de Certeau 1984: 129)

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“After all, who is going to take issue with the True?”

(Lefebvre 1991: 7)

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“That you cannot navigate a ship without charts, however, does not mean that you can navigate it by charts alone.

Rudders and helmsmen are also necessary.”

(Wright 1942: 544)

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Interoperability and propriety

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Interoperability and propriety

Competition and habit

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Interoperability and propriety

Competition and habit

Fashion and surveillance

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Interoperability and propriety

Competition and habit

Fashion and surveillance

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“New data and big data are changing all of this...”

(Batty 2012: 193)

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“We need to push our civic leaders to think more about long-term survival and

less about short-term gain, more about cooperation than competition...”

(Townsend 2013: 14)

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Interoperability and propriety

Competition and habit

Fashion and surveillance

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“The city’s crowds wanted less market movement, more government regulation,

fixity, and security. Physical movement in thecity only sharpened theirhunger pains.”

(Sennett 1994: 275)

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Interoperability and propriety

Competition and habit

Fashion and surveillance

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quantified#self-city-nation

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quantified#selfie?

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quantified#selfie?

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“… a hermeneutics of suspicion, a mode of argument which says that the strength of cartographical reason lies less in its ability to tell the truth and more in its power to convince.”

(Olsson 2007: 10)

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“… a hermeneutics of suspicion, a mode of argument which says that the strength of cartographical reason lies less in its ability to tell the truth and more in its power to convinced?