This book critically explores forms and techniques of calculation that emerge with digital computation, and their implications. The contributors demonstrate that digital calculative devices matter beyond their specific functions as they progressively shape, transform and govern all areas of our life. In particular, it addresses such questions as: * * How does the drive to make sense of, and productively use, large amounts of diverse data, inform the development of new calculative devices, logics and techniques? * How do these devices, logics and techniques affect our capacity to decide and to act? * How do mundane elements of our physical and virtual existence become data to be analysed and rearranged in complex ensembles of people and things? * In what ways are conventional notions of public and private, individual and population, certainty and probability, rule and exception transformed and what are the consequences? * How does the search for ‘hidden’ connections and patterns change
