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

摘要这项研究将批判性地审视由当代数字自我测量方法驱动的正在进行的数据革命的方面，例如个人应用程序、可穿戴设备和数据收集传感器的激增。这是一项及时的研究，回应和探索了我们当前以理性为中心的思维社会，它将数字神圣化，重点关注偏向于所谓的客观信息的偏见的原因以及个人和社会影响。我的部分动机是我的计算障碍，在这种情况下，数字是没有意义的，我的目标是提出一种我称之为数据驱动的现象学的“后测量”替代方案。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自我评价方式的“声音”。我的项目遵循两条线索。首先是衡量技术发展的时间表，这些技术发展成复杂的个人高科技产品。第二种是西方认识论的论述，从收集知识的经验方法到揭示个体“生活经验”的经验方法(胡塞尔，1970年，第240页)。在这些范围内，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？这种偏好对我们的社会有什么影响？是否有隐藏的意图旨在影响我们使用自我数据的方式，如果是的话，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化的知识和数据驱动的测量，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，我渴望开发一种新的居中的“后测量”语言，它可以在人类和数字对话之间形成一座桥梁。它的目的是放大从具体的知识立场说话的声音，并将身体理解为“活着的”，而不是需要通过技术工具翻译的外部物体。这一新的语言将邀请用户体验一种新的自我测量方式，赋予各种“声音”和阅读自我的看法以合法性。对于它的创作，我将使用多种媒体，如文本和感官工具，来试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，我想在哲学和艺术史上展开关于自我测量的不同概念的论述。

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.