DIGITAL POWER: SELF-TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES THROUGH MICHEL FOUCAULT LENS

被引:3
作者
Lifkova, Anna [1 ]
机构
[1] Matej Bel Univ Banska Bystrica, Fac Polit Sci & Int Relat, Kuzmanyho 1, Banska Bystrica 97401, Slovakia
来源
POLITICKE VEDY | 2019年 / 22卷 / 04期
关键词
Foucault; power; self-tracking technologies; digital health;
D O I
10.24040/politickevedy.2019.22.4.81-101
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
From a traditional political perspective, power has always been linked to force, domination, and sovereignty issues. In this article we outline the Foucauldian concept of power, (self) surveillance and the panopticon in relation to digital self-tracking devices. These self-tracking devices are supposedly designed for self-improvement and self-enhancement of an individual. As the new devices come to light, a new frontier of power emerges in the digital sphere - power that is exercised with subtlety and disguised as a voluntary. Self-tracking wearables produce a huge body of information, so that life itself is broken into data. The data claim to represent a body-related knowledge and individuals are expected to live according to this knowledge. In regards to this, we illustrated how the health and corporate sector integrate these wearables into their structures and are able to observe if citizens meet the established health norms. The presence of these devices silently coerces individuals to behave in the way the healthcare and corporate sectors desire. This shows how these sectors expand surveillance practises over the individuals and manifest a certain control over their lives, where health becomes a key mode of biopower by these enterprises.
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页码:81 / 101
页数:21
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