Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark.
Medical anthropology January 1, 2022 Margit Anne Petersen, Aja Smith, Dorthe Brogaard Kristensen et al. 12 citations
People pursue a good life not only by coping with crises but also by actively seeking improvement. In contemporary Denmark, three self-improvement practices—psychedelic micro-dosing, meditation and mindfulness, and fitness self-tracking—are compared using Foucault's concept of technologies of the self. These practices produce and reflect different notions of the self, yet all involve managing vulnerabilities by accepting, controlling, and balancing tensions between self-making and relation-making.