book cover of Re/Embodied Data and the Ambiguities of Knowing

We live in a moment of comprehensive datafication, as ever more aspects of our lives and the planet are measured, analyzed, and shaped digitally. This opens new ways of knowing and doing, but all too often it also leads to a systematic devaluation of forms of knowing that cannot be quantified and processed digitally. Through a form of epistemic violence, new forms of ignorance and marginalization are enacted. Rather than favoring one over the other, the relationship between quantifiable and experiential, abstracted and embodied knowledges must be explored.

In this book, researchers in the arts and sciences address these differences through transdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue. They focus on epistemological, aesthetic, and techno-political aspects, and the differences between various forms of perception. With an aim to embrace the ambiguity of multiplicity, the authors propose ways of rendering these differences productive through their situated practices.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Re/Embodied Data and the Ambiguities of Knowing
Felix Stalder, Michelle Christensen, Florian Conradi, Cornelia Sollfrank

Dialogue 1: Quantification of Breathing
Breathing Data, Cornelia Sollfrank
On Yogic Breathing: Rapid Technological Progress and Mindful Self-Regulation, Ulrich Ott
Discussion: On Technology-Supported Self-care, Biofeedback, Self-knowledge and Non-duality

Dialogue 2: More-than-Human Technoecologies
Critique as Design – Posthuman, Postwestern, Postdiscipline, Michelle Christensen and Florian Conradi
E’TOME – A Proposal of Moving Curveward, Anani Dodji Sanouvi Vernacular Computationalities Cosmogony as a New Paradigm for Design, Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou
Discussion: On Vernacular Knowledge, Epistemic Diversity, and Nonlinear Futures

Dialogue 3 Wildlife and Data
Re-relating the Technosphere to the Biosphere. A Wilding Project a Planetary Context, Felix Stalder
The Story of the Northern Bald Ibis: From Extinction to Conservation, Johannes Fritz
Discussion: On Technologies, Numbers, Values, Emotions, Hope, and Unexpected Collaboration

Biographies

Imprint

Christensen, Michelle, Florian Conradi, Cornelia Sollfrank, and Felix Stalder, eds. 2026. Re/Embodied Data. Ambiguities of Knowing. Adocs: Hamburg
ISBN: 9783943253887, 220 pages, DOI: https://doi.org/10.53198/9783943253948

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