ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on feminist technoscience in order to understand how networked medical technologies allow us to reconsider what it means to be human, how we understand ourselves and how we create meaning in our lives. It uses an autoethnographic account in order to reflect on posthuman subjectivity, drawing attention to labor, social relations, standards, interoperability, and waste. The chapter engages with many of the themes above with an attention to disconnection and the networked medical self, which contributes to growing interest in the quantified self. Disconnection, failure, and breakdown serve to make infrastructures more visible according to feminist STS theory. From a design and engineering perspective, the possibilities, constraints, and ethical considerations around posthuman futures — whether technological or environmental — present an opportunity to rethink our methodologies. Designing for posthuman futures will require new kinds of empathic and subjective experiences.
