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Aimee Walleston's avatar

I love this.

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snav's avatar

Thought provoking. The question that arises for me is what can one do if the body becomes a site of terror? I've had a Whoop for years and it serves as a little reassurance: things are OK, things are under control. I sympathize with your implication that too much control takes us away from the grand immediacy of being, but I do wonder whether the ideal point lies in the middle, or all the way to the side of throwing ourselves to the wind.

It strikes me as I'm writing this that my terror of the body comes from a certain distrust, a warped cause and effect that shatters the mirror stage imagination of the body's unity and subordination to the I. Childhood health problems I guess. I wonder to what extent the "tracker" can become a way to repair one's relationship to the body, so long as it doesn't cross over into data fetishism. It's been enough years, maybe it's time for an experiment...

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