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Tracking Humanity

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The introduction to my thesis on the Quantified Self movement and the culture of self-tracking

This is the introduction and first chapter of my mediocre undergraduate thesis about the Quantified Self movement, cyborg A History of Cyborgs Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives anthropology, technological embodiment, and Western Cosmology. I wrote it between 2012- 2013 13ya for my BA degree in Cultural Anthropology A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology A discipline at the intersection of cultural anthropology and binary logic . Some of my opinions and many elements of the self-tracking community have changed since this w

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