Odih, Pamela. 2016. Adsensory Financialisation. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-9531-6 [Book]

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Abstract or Description

Adsensory technology presupposes a neoliberal entrepreneurial self as an integral feature of its biopolitical financialisation of healthcare regimes. According to Michel Foucault, neoliberalism is indebted to the endeavour of its self-disciplined subjects, investing human capital in a self-regulated, entrepreneurial pursuit of responsible healthcare and well-being. Primarily informed by social network analytics and virtual ethnographic observations, this book identifies the biopolitical basis of adsensory technologies. It argues that a paradoxical feature of adsensory technologies dissimulating “that there is nothing” (Jean Baudrillard) is the proliferation of risk. This is because the dissimulation of nothing opens up the possibility that “everything can be a risk, in so far as the type of event it falls under can be treated according to the principles of insurance technology” (Francois Ewald). Adsensory wearable technologies are called upon as “a strategy of deterrence” (Jean Baudrillard) to indemnify capitalism’s production of signs which dissimulate their simulation. In a context in which much that was certain now feigns its own existence, the insurance professed by adsensory technologies provides for an unrealisable guarantee against indefinable unknowable risks. Based also on case studies of European Court of Justice personal finance insurance rulings, this book engages critically with the neoliberal construct of the entrepreneurial lifestyle insurance subject. Social network analytics are utilised here to map bio-technology onto neoliberal regimes of financialised well-being and healthcare provision. In so doing, the book situates adsensory technologies within the marketising healthcare management programmes that are currently aligning the neoliberal reengineering of health and well-being citizenship with the biopolitical healthcare financialisation of populations. Paradoxically, in their endeavour to actor network virtual well-being health communities, adsensory technologies proliferate the individuating marketised conditions of neoliberal self-regulating entrepreneurialism. This gives rise to aleatory materialist dialectics of financialised surveillance far exceeding the regulatory time and space modalities of Foucauldian panoptics and Mathiesen synoptics. Adsensory technologies are integral to a seismic transformation in the cultural economies of time presently eliding digital advertising and insurantial technologies. Axiomatic with the synchronic times of the adsensory technologies valorised by lifestyle insurance, much riskier asynchronic embodied times, transgressively dissimilating the limits of financialisation, are beginning to emerge.

Summary of Empirical Findings:

Chapter One: Haptic-sensory capital accumulation,
Chapter Two: Individuating collectives and fansite affective labour as limitations to social media financialisation,
Chapter Three: Adsensory wearable technology, transgressive insights into social media advertising space bidding modalities,
Chapter Four: Dissimulation and simulation as the soul of adsensory wearable technology,
Chapter Five: Marketing of the soul of adsensory wearable technology i.e., econophysics reve'ls into the limits of the marketing finance exchange relationships of adsensory finance capital,
Chapter Six: Adsensory wearable technology and sex-based actuarial discrimination,
Chapter Seven: Case study of an online healthcare message board community (Weight Watchers SmartPoint) as an insurantial technology,
Chapter Eight: Case study, distinguishes the insurantial technology of an online healthcare message board community (Weight Watchers SmartPoint) and illustrates its differential insurantial operation from the way in which social media based talk-action-networks (Weight Watchers SmartPoints scheme) enable the cultivation of social capital as part of the demonstration of healthcare consumer citizenship,
Chapter Nine: SmartPoints is furthermore demonstrated as an insurance technology in so far as the data collected from Fitbit® adsensory wearable devices is off-set against the premium payments for life/health insurance products. AdSplashing.

Item Type:	Book
Additional Information:	Dr Pamela Odih is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London. Her research interests include gender, work and global capitalism; time, social theory and the constitution of subjective identity; environmental cultural politics, international communication media and poststructural semiotics; and financialisation, neoliberalism, consumer citizenship and healthcare markets.
Keywords:	Insurantial biotechnology, marketised healthcare, biopolitics wearable technology, (Ele)ments of trackers, individuating collectives, affective labour, fansites, advertising space, bidding modality, online healthcare message board, talk-action-networks, adsensory wearable technology, commodify-sign healthcare, econophysics finance-trading, dissimulation, simulation and finance capital. AdSplashing.
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Date:	1 September 2016
Item ID:	18858
Date Deposited:	02 Sep 2016 16:14
Last Modified:	21 Sep 2022 17:31
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/18858

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