Humanity Measures Itself Self-Measuring and a new "Post-Measuring" Discourse

本研究将批判性地审视由当代数值自我测量方法驱动的持续数据革命的各个方面，例如个人应用程序、可穿戴设备和数据收集传感器的激增。这是一个及时的研究，回应和探索我们当前的逻辑中心思想的社会，神圣化的数字，关注的原因和个人和社会的影响，有利于所谓的客观信息的偏见。我的动机部分来自于我的计算障碍症，在这种情况下，数字是没有意义的，我的目标是提出我所谓的“后测量”替代数据驱动的现象学。通过将哲学和现象学分析与发人深省的艺术实践相结合，我努力引入挑战当前客观评价自我方式的“声音”。我的项目有两个方面。第一个是测量技术发展的时间表，这些技术已成为复杂的个人高科技产品。第二种是西方的认识论论述，其范围从收集知识的经验方法到揭示个人“生活经验”的体现方法（胡塞尔，1970年，第240页）。在这些界限内，我提出了以下研究问题：是什么促使个人更喜欢工具自我测量而不是主观方法？这种偏好对我们社会的影响是什么？是否有隐藏的意图来影响我们消费自我数据的方式，如果有，谁会受益？艺术实践如何创造一种新的中介语言来平衡具体的知识和数据驱动的衡量，这将如何产生更广泛的社会影响？我的研究对艺术和哲学领域的贡献是希望开发一种新的调解“后测量”语言，这种语言可以在人类和数字对话之间架起一座桥梁。它旨在放大从具体知识立场发出的声音，并将身体理解为“活的”，而不是需要通过技术工具翻译的外部对象。这种新的语言将邀请用户体验一种新的自我测量方式，为各种“声音”和阅读自我的感知提供合法性。为了创作它，我将使用多种媒体，如文本和感官工具，来实验这种新语言对社会管理当前技术数据爆炸的方式的影响。因此，我希望扩大哲学和艺术史上关于自我衡量的不同看法的论述。

Abstract This research will critically examine the aspect of the ongoing data revolution driven by contemporary numerical self-measuring methods, as exemplified by the proliferation of personal apps, wearables, and data-gathering sensors. It is a timely study, responding to and exploring our current logocentric thinking society that sanctifies numbers, focusing on the causes and the personal and social implications of the bias in favour of so-called objective information. I am motivated in part by my dyscalculia condition, where numbers are meaningless, and I aim to suggest what I call a "post-measuring" alternative to data-driven phenomenology. By combining philosophical and phenomenological analysis with thought-provoking artistic practice, I strive to introduce 'voices' that challenge current objective ways of valuing the self. My project follows two strands. The first is the timeline of measuring-technologies' development that materialised into sophisticated personal hi-tech products. The second is the Western epistemological discourse, which ranges from the empirical method of gathering knowledge to the embodied method that unveils the individual's "lived experience" (Husserl, 1970 p.240). Within these boundaries, I raise the following research questions: What encourages individuals to prefer instrument self-measuring to subjective approaches? What are the implications of this preference for our society? Are there hidden intentions designed to influence the way we consume self-data, and if so, who benefits? How could art practice create a new mediative language that will balance embodied knowledge and data-driven measuring, and how may this generate a wider social impact? My research's contribution to the fields of art and philosophy is the desire to develop a new mediative "post-measuring" language, which can form a bridge between human and digital dialogues. It aims to amplify the voices that speak from embodied knowledge positions and apprehend the body directed as 'lived', not as an external object that needs to be translated by technical tools. This new language will invite the user to experience a new way of self-measuring, giving legitimacy to various 'voices' and perceptions of reading the self. For its creation, I will use multiple media, such as text and sensory tools, to experiment with the impact of this new language on the way society manages the current technological data explosion. Thus, I wish to expand the discourse in philosophy and art history regarding different perceptions of self-measuring.