Abstract
In What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami, suggests that running ‘makes for a lot of good memories’ (2009: 178). For me, running is about keeping fit, challenging myself to go longer, and be stronger and faster. When I run, I am totally immersed in maintaining a set pace, conquering terrain and everything demanded of a runner’s body. So how do I remember my runs? If I am so focused on the act of running, where do I retrieve the memories from?
In this presentation, I explore the relationship between the embodied experience of running and its recollection through data. These data are fed from my body into a Garmin sports watch and displayed in a smartphone app in a cyclical process, where data reawakens, challenges and reinforces memories that may otherwise exist only within the human body. In reflecting on my running and the data it generates, I consider whether I am ‘offloading […] phenomenology onto technology (Dyens 2012: 77) and explore whether humans have become dependent on machines to engage with the world.
In this presentation, I explore the relationship between the embodied experience of running and its recollection through data. These data are fed from my body into a Garmin sports watch and displayed in a smartphone app in a cyclical process, where data reawakens, challenges and reinforces memories that may otherwise exist only within the human body. In reflecting on my running and the data it generates, I consider whether I am ‘offloading […] phenomenology onto technology (Dyens 2012: 77) and explore whether humans have become dependent on machines to engage with the world.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 18 Jul 2022 |
Event | 9th International Conference of Autoethnography: Right/Write to Roam - Waterside, Bristol Harbour - and online, Bristol, United Kingdom Duration: 18 Jul 2022 → 19 Jul 2022 http://boomerang-project.org.uk/events/23-july-2018-british-auto-ethnography-conference/ |
Conference
Conference | 9th International Conference of Autoethnography |
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Abbreviated title | ICAE 2022 |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Bristol |
Period | 18/07/22 → 19/07/22 |
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Keywords
- running
- digital
- phenomenology
- memory
- autoethnography