The Optimised and Enhanced Self: Experiences of the Self and the Making of Societal Values

Kristensen, Dorthe Brogaard

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_30

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“…Through the first two dimensions, activated by the instrumental aims of algorithmic systems, the focus on autonomy appears as the capacity to reason about one’s decision-making in the context of automated systems of social ordering and as the ability to enact one’s decisions, reasons and values amid technological constraints and possibilities. Of course, the instrumental nature of algorithmic technologies may in some cases enable more reflective and reasoned – and thus more autonomous – behaviour by representing, organizing and shaping individuals and their habits as objects of improvement (Kristensen, 2022). This is especially true of certain forms of self-tracking: regarding eating and exercise, for instance, where one previously acted upon impulses, wearable and biometric technologies may promote more deliberate, information-based and goal-oriented behaviour.…”

Section: Balancing Autonomy In Relation To Algorithmic Systemsmentioning

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Dimensions of autonomy in human–algorithm relations

Savolainen

Ruckenstein

2022

New Media & Society

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This article reorients research on agentic engagements with algorithms from the perspective of autonomy. We separate two horizons of algorithmic relations – the instrumental and the intimate – and analyse how they shape different dimensions of autonomous agency. Against the instrumental horizon, algorithmic systems are technical procedures ordering social life at a distance and using rules that can only partly be known. Autonomy is activated as reflective and informed choice and the ability to enact one’s goals and values amid technological constraints. Meanwhile, the intimate horizon highlights affective aspects of autonomy in relation to algorithmic systems as they creep ever closer to our minds and bodies. Here, quests for autonomy arise from disturbance and comfort in a position of vulnerability. We argue that the dimensions of autonomy guide us towards issues of specific ethical and political importance, given that autonomy is never merely a theoretical concern, but also a public value.

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Section: Balancing Autonomy In Relation To Algorithmic Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dimensions of autonomy in human–algorithm relations

Savolainen

Ruckenstein

2022

New Media & Society

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‘Psychedelics are no magic pill’: the narrative and embodied dimensions of psychedelic integration in Denmark

Marie

2024

Anthropol of Consciousness

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Within recent years, an increasing number of people and researchers in the Global North have become interested in psychedelic substances and their therapeutic application. While much of the current media attention and research effort mainly concentrate on the therapeutic potential and actions of the individual's acute psychedelic experience, this article explores the user‐perceived, therapeutic dynamics of psychedelics in a more long‐term perspective by charting the lived experiences and practices of ‘integration’ among psychedelic users in Denmark. Based on ethnographic fieldwork from November 2020 to June 2021, I offer a dual typology of self‐related integration as narrative and experiential‐somatic. Combining the two, I argue that psychedelic integration in contemporary Denmark can be viewed as a processual self‐transformation of the users' experiential orientation where understandings and/or modes of being from the acute psychedelic experience are woven into, prolonged, and/or embodied in their everyday existence.

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The Optimised and Enhanced Self: Experiences of the Self and the Making of Societal Values

Cited by 2 publications

References 67 publications

Dimensions of autonomy in human–algorithm relations

Dimensions of autonomy in human–algorithm relations

‘Psychedelics are no magic pill’: the narrative and embodied dimensions of psychedelic integration in Denmark

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