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