Bodies as technologies have been exploited over hundreds of years. But bodies can be technologies beyond the notion and practice of exploitation and extraction. Looking at bodies as sites of inquiry, information processing, storage, and aggregation, with nuanced and multiple ways of wading through this information and coming to a variety of results, based on unique filters that we craft throughout our experiences on the planet. Importantly, we can tune our bodies into the capacity of pattern recognition.
The senses play a particular part in the rethinking of expertise as a hierarchical way of knowing and instead leaning into different ways of knowing. By coming back into our senses and developing them in collaboration as guiding tools, we rediscover them as powerful compasses through complex systems. By employing these modes of technologies, we both enlarge our definition of what technologies are, thus opening a space for everybody to engage with science and technology in their own right and at the same time, we find ways of discerning information in an otherwise overwhelming world.
