Selbstsorge im quantifizierten Sport: Emanzipatorische Potenziale im mediengenealogischen Zugriff

How can we thoughtfully address the effects of quantification, which are increasingly permeating the world of sports and consistently prompting abstract interpretations of contexts that were once more open to interpretation? To answer this question, a media-genealogical approach to occidental sports history is developed, which makes quantification describable as a rationalization process within the various modes of participation in sports and thus also as a history of practice.
It becomes apparent that self-care in quantified sport can unfold in three directions and represents nothing less than a conflict played out through media practices, in which one’s own sporting experience is defended as something subjective and contingent against technically mediated, heteronomous dynamics of rationalization and hierarchization.