Summary The development of commercial, wearable biosensors since the 1970s has been promoted as a rhetoric of optimization, in which one’s body can be improved through harnessing information. The wearable biosensor can therefore be understood as a tool of biomedicalization, in which patients are turned into consumers and health is a personal responsibility. This paper argues for a radical alternative vision of biosensors through an unexpected precursor, the American metalsmith Mary Ann Scherr (1921–2016). In the early 1970s Scherr debuted a series of ‘body monitoring’ jewellery. This jewellery responded both to a cybernetic notion of technological control as well a burgeoning ecological movement that positioned the body as porous—and therefore vulnerable—to its environment. A product of the studio craft and industrial design worlds, Scherr married function with a keen appreciation for adornment and sensuality. Scherr’s body monitors offer an alternative vision to the rhetoric of optimization, one that balances a desire for control through information with an emphasis on embodied form born through a sensual attention to physical experience.

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太空服和防毒面具：Mary Ann Scherr 和个人技术的另一种观点

总结 自 1970 年代以来，商业、可穿戴生物传感器的发展一直被宣传为一种优化的修辞，其中可以通过利用信息来改善一个人的身体。因此，可穿戴生物传感器可以理解为一种生物医学化的工具，在这种工具中，患者变成了消费者，健康是个人的责任。本文通过意想不到的前身美国金属匠 Mary Ann Scherr (1921-2016) 提出了一种激进的生物传感器替代愿景。在 1970 年代初期，Scherr 推出了一系列“身体监测”珠宝。这种珠宝既响应了技术控制的控制论概念，也响应了新兴的生态运动，该运动将身体定位为多孔的，因此容易受到环境的影响。工作室工艺和工业设计世界的产物，谢尔对装饰和性感有着敏锐的鉴赏力。Scherr 的身体监视器提供了一种替代优化言论的愿景，一种通过信息控制的愿望与对通过对身体体验的感官关注而产生的具身形式的强调之间取得平衡。