The Quantified Body: Identity, Empowerment, and Control in Smart Wearables
In an era where bodies are increasingly rendered as streams of biometric data, smart wearables have emerged not only as tools of self-optimization but as infrastructures of predictive governance. This paper critically examines how devices such as the Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Oura Ring reconfigure bodily autonomy through feedback-driven self-surveillance, while embedding users within opaque systems of data extraction and algorithmic control. Drawing on Deleuze's concept of the control society, Z…
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