ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the way in which ideas of transformation are mobilised and enacted in practice. It also focuses specifically on the transformational aspects of research participants' accounts. The discussion turns to how this attention to the self is supplemented through technologies of recording. Here we can consider these diaries, blogs and photograph albums as contemporary hypomnemata: they serve as active participants in the practices and technologies of reflection, imagination and transformation of the self. The hypomnemata can thus be considered as part of the substance of the self, and it is for this reason that it considers certain technologies that are involved in the production of the self as prostheses'. The chapter also focuses on some of Foucault's writings on technologies of the self in order to think about transformative practices such as secular pilgrimages.