Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media

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Jacqueline Wernimont (Assisstant Professor, Arizona State University) Elizabeth Losh (Director of Academic Programs, Sixth College Culture, Art, and Technology Program, University of California at San Diego)

Numbered Lives

Life and Death in Quantum Media

Jacqueline Wernimont (Assisstant Professor, Arizona State University), Elizabeth Losh (Director of Academic Programs, Sixth College Culture, Art, and Technology Program, University of California at San Diego), Celia Pearce (Associate Professor of Game Design/Head of Game Design Program, Northeastern University)

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MIT Press
01 January 2019

Media studies; Impact of science & technology on society

Series: Media Origins

A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.

Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily steps with fitness trackers and quantify births and deaths with digitized data. How are these present-day methods for measuring ourselves similar to those used in the past? In this book, Jacqueline Wernimont presents a new media history of western quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.

Numbered Lives is the first book of its kind, a feminist media history that maps connections not only between past and present-day ""quantum media"" but between media tracking and long-standing systemic inequalities. Wernimont explores the history of the pedometer, mortality statistics, and the census in England and the United States to illuminate the entanglement of Anglo-American quantification with religious, imperial, and patriarchal paradigms. In Anglo-American culture, Wernimont argues, counting life and counting death are sides of the same coin-one that has always been used to render statistics of life and death more valuable to corporate and state organizations. Numbered Lives enumerates our shared media history, helping us understand our digital culture and inheritance.

By: Jacqueline Wernimont (Assisstant Professor Arizona State University)
Series edited by: Elizabeth Losh (Director of Academic Programs Sixth College Culture Art and Technology Program University of California at San Diego), Celia Pearce (Associate Professor of Game Design/Head of Game Design Program, Northeastern University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 19mm
ISBN: 9780262039048
ISBN 10: 0262039044
Series: Media Origins
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 01 January 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jacqueline D. Wernimont is Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement and Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College.

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