Chapter 5. Imagining wearable technology (WT) otherwise

This chapter shows the usefulness of a feminist new materialist perspectives to highlight the differences between posthuman flourishing and inhuman transhumanism and why this distinction matters in analyses of technology in organizational life. I argue transhumanism infuses wearable technology 'ideal' worker imaginaries with the effect being to intensify and expand normalizing power-knowledge regimes which can lead to discrimination and contribute to inequalities. In this chapter I focus on WT imaginaries using concepts from Rosi Braidotti's The Posthuman. Her work recognizes the vitality of human and nonhuman agencies whilst remaining engaged with inequality and can draw attention to the challenges, limitations, and potential offered by digital technologies.