Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark.
Medical Anthropology 2022 Margit Anne Petersen, Aja Smith, Dorthe Brogaard Kristensen et al. 12 citations
Coping with crisis is fundamental for human life, but so is the pursuit of everything good and fruitful. We revisit Foucault's technologies of the self as an analytical lens for what people do when pursuing a good life in contemporary Denmark. Comparing three emerging self-improvement domains; psychedelic micro-dosing, meditation and mindfulness, and fitness self-tracking, we explore processes...