Self-improvement: technologies of the soul in the age of artificial intelligence

The phenomenon: the self-improvement imperative

The history: ancient philosophers, priests, and humanists in search of self-knowledge and perfection

The society: modern self-obsession from Rousseau to hipster existentialism

The political economy: self-taming and exploitation under wellness capitalism

The technology: categorized, measured, quantified, and enhanced, or why AI knows us better than ourselves

The solution (part I): relational self and social change

The solution (part II): technologies that tell different stories about us.