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Author Odih, Pamela, author

Title Adsensory financialisation / by Pamela Odih
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 343 pages)
Contents List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Introduction; Part One: Introjecting the Principle of Performance, Adsensory Technology; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Part Two: Adsensory Capitalist Accumulation; Chapter Three; Part Three: Dissimulating the Body and Simulating the Soul of Biocapitalism; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Part Four: Adsensory Technologies in Synoptic Times; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Conclusion; References; Index
Summary Adsensory technology presupposes a neoliberal entrepreneurial self as an integral feature of its biopolitical financialisation of healthcare regimes. According to Michel Foucault, neoliberalism is indebted to the endeavour of its self-disciplined subjects, investing human capital in a self-regulated, entrepreneurial pursuit of responsible healthcare and well-being. Primarily informed by social network analytics and virtual ethnographic observations, this book identifies the biopolitical basis of adsensory technologies. It argues that a paradoxical feature of adsensory technologies dissimulatin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Wearable technology -- Economic aspects
Wearable technology -- Social aspects
Advertising -- Social aspects.
Capitalism.
Economics, finance, business & management.
COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy.
COMPUTERS -- Computer Science.
COMPUTERS -- Data Processing.
COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General.
COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory.
COMPUTERS -- Reference.
Advertising -- Social aspects
Capitalism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443818506
144381850X