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Resolving the Incommensurability of Eugenics & the Quantified Self Eugenics & the Quantified Self Resolving the Incommensurability of Eugenics & the Quantified Self Gabi Schaffzin The “quantified self,” a cultural phenomenon which emerged just before the 2010s, embodies one critical underlying tenet: self-tracking for the purpose of self-improvement through the identification of behavioral and environmental variables critical to one’s physical and psychological makeup. Of course, another project aimed at systematically improving persons through changes to the greater population is eugenics. Importantly, both cultural phenomena are built on the predictive power of correlation and regression—statistical technologies that classify and normalize. Still, a closer look at the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century eugenic projects and the early-twenty-first century proliferation of quantified self devices reveals an inherent incommensurability between the fundamental tenets underlying each movement. Eugenics, with its emphasis on hereditary physical and psychological traits, precludes the possibility that outside influences may lead to changes in an individual’s bodily or mental makeup. The quantified self, on the other hand, is predicated on the belief that, by tracking the variables associated with one’s activities or environment, one might be able to make adjustments to achieve physical or psychological health. By understanding how the technologies of the two movements work in the context of the predominant form of Foucauldian governmentality and biopower of their respective times, however, the incommensurability between these two movements might in fact be resolved. I'm Gabi Schaffzin from UC San Diego and I'm pursuing my PhD in Art History, Theory, and Criticism with an Art Practice concentration. My work focuses on the designed representation of measured pain in a medical, laboratory, and consumer context. You can reach me at [email protected]. gnovis • 3 Volume 18, Issue 1 • Fall 2017 ince 2015, three new long-form whereas the quantified self relies on a neo- works have been published on “self- Lamarckian3 understanding of how we, tracking” and the “quantified self ” as humans, change over time; that is, that S(interchangeably, QS)1: Deborah Lupton’s environmental factors have an influence on The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self- our behavior and health (Hasian 1996, 20). Tracking (2016), Gina Neff and Dawn In what follows, a brief history of eugenics Nafus’s Self Tracking (2016), and the Nafus- and its critical ties to statistical thinking edited Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in sets the stage for tracing the quantified Everyday Life (2016). These aptly named self backward, through its roots in self- volumes provide a range of theoretical experimentation and behaviorism, and then and ethnographic explorations into this forward, from eugenics through its influence relatively young industry-driven cultural on psychometrics and personality testing. phenomenon which encompasses the use Throughout, eugenics reveals itself to be an of technology to track one’s daily activity important predecessor through which we or environment. To date, however, there can better understand the quantified self in has not been much work published on the a cultural context. history of the quantified self.2 Attempting to understand QS as cultural phenomenon A Brief History of Eugenics in that regard could entail reading the development of this movement through the Francis Galton had been interested in history of eugenics and its manifestation as heredity and statistics long before he read a broad cultural form. Through a stronger On the Origin of the Species, written by understanding of the history of eugenics, the his half cousin Charles Darwin, upon its emergence of the quantified self—heavily publication in 1859. The work was a major reliant on the technologies of statistical inspiration for Galton’s assertion that thinking—becomes more clear. Thus, by genius is passed through generations—so outlining the history of the quantified self as much so, that Galton spent the remainder it relates to the emergence of statistics, the of his life working on a theory of hereditary underlying connections to the early eugenic intelligence. His first publication on the projects of Victorian statistician Francis topic, “Hereditary Talent and Character” Galton and his turn-of-the-twentieth- (1865), traced the genealogy of nearly century cohort become apparent. 1,700 men whom he deemed worthy of accolades—a small sample of “the chief Both eugenics and the quantified self men of genius whom the world is known embody the normalizing power of large to have produced” (Bulmer 2003, 159)— data-set anthropometric statistics in hopes eventually concluding that “[e]verywhere is of improving the human body and mind. the enormous power of hereditary influence Their relationship is complicated, however, forced on our attention” (Galton 1865, 163). when considering that eugenics was, at its Four years later, the essay spawned a full root, a project of purely Darwinian evolution, volume, Hereditary Genius, in which Galton 1 The use of the lowercase “quantified self ”, as opposed to “Quantified Self ”, delineates between a broad cultural phenomenon and a branding effort on the part of its progenitors and device manufacturers. 2 This article was published before the release of Jacqueline Wernimont’sNumbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, forthcoming), which promises a more historical take on QS. 3 In 1800, zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck argued that species evolved due to environmental factors—for instance, that giraffes developed long necks in order to reach the food high up in trees (Burkhardt 2013, 800). While Darwin’s theories eventually proved Lamarckian evolution as incorrect (those giraffes that were always tall enough to reach the food are the ones that survive), the term is still useful when describing situations in which one’s environment is heavily influential. 4 • gnovisjournal.org Eugenics & the Quantified Self utilized Adolphe Quetelet’s statistical law that is, eugenics—rather than simply to detail a predictive uniformity in deviation the observation of it. Galton’s argument from a normally distributed set of data was rather simple, albeit vague: society points: the law of errors (Galton 1869). should encourage the early marriage and reproduction of men of high stature (Bulmer Much like Darwin’s seminal work, 2003, 82). As stated by Michael Bulmer: “He Quetelet’s advancements in statistics played suggested that a scheme of marks for family a critical role in the development of Galton’s merit should be devised, so that ancestral theories on the hereditary nature of human qualities as well as personal qualities could greatness. Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer, be taken into account” (Ibid.). Once these was obsessed with his predecessors’ attempts scores were evaluated, the individuals with to normalize the variation in error that top marks would be encouraged to breed, occurred when the position of celestial bodies and rewarded for doing so; at one point, was measured multiple times. During the he recommended a £5,000 “wedding gift” first half of the nineteenth century, French for the top ten couples in Britain each year, intellectuals and bureaucrats alike had taken accompanied by a ceremony in Westminster a cue from Marquis de Condorcet, who Abbey officiated by the Queen of England proposed a way to treat moral and social (Ibid.). This type of selective breeding inquiries in a similar manner to the way in would eventually be referred to as “positive which physical sciences were approached. eugenics.”5 Quetelet, combining these “moral sciences”4 with normal distributions, began to apply Galton utilized the statistical technologies statistical laws of error in distribution to the developed by Quetelet and the like for results of anthropometric measurements means other than just evaluating individual across large groups of people: e.g., the chest qualifications for reproduction. They size of soldiers, the height of school boys. The also allowed for the prediction of how result, which effectively treated the variation improvements could permeate through a between individual subjects’ measurements population. Specifically, he argued that if in the same manner as a variation in a set a normally distributed population (being of measurements of a single astronomical measured upon whichever metric—or object, was homme type—the typical man combination of which—he had chosen) (Hacking 1990, 111–12). reproduced, it would result in another normally distributed population. In other Inspired by Quetelet’s work, Galton wrote words, the bulk of the population would in 1889: “I know of scarcely anything so apt be average or mediocre (Hacking 1990, to impress the imagination as the wonderful 183). He called this “the law of regression” form of cosmic order expressed by the and considered it an extreme detriment ‘Law of Frequency of Error’” (66). Six years to the improvement of a race towards the earlier, in Inquiries Into Human Faculty, he ideal. However, if one could guarantee declared that he was interested in topics that those individuals at the opposite end “more or less connected with that of the of the bell curve—that is, the morally, cultivation of race” (17, emphasis added)— physically, or psychologically deficient— 4 Per Hacking (1990, 38), Condorcet understands this term to mean “‘all those sciences that have as their object either the human mind itself, or the relations of men one to another.’”
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