This chapter maps out the topography of energy, bodily exhaustion, and digital (data) exhaustion in the context of digital mindfulness technologies. Using a walkthrough method, content analysis, and visual analysis, I argue that digital mindfulness technologies such as Calm and AmaZen follow the industrialized notion of energy that has been with us since the nineteenth century. Such...
‘Mind Matters’ rejects the notion that body and mind are bridged or somehow connected in movement. Rather they embody synergistically, constantly emerging in co-creation. It is typically supposed that minds think while bodies feel, but this work holds that minds don't just think; they feel while they think and what they think. Images arise subjectively in the process, and they speak to the...