Amid the proliferating cross-disciplinary discussion of 'big data' and algorithms, there is currently a lack of academic work on the changing landscape of calculative technologies and devices, this volume critically explores forms and techniques of calculation that emerge with digital computation and their implications.

Introduction Louise Amoore and Volha Piotukh Part 1. Algorithmic life Chapter 1. 'The public and its algorithms: Comparing and experimenting with calculated publics' Andreas Birkbak and Hjalmar Bang Carlsen Chapter 2. 'The libraryness of calculative devices: Artificially intelligent librarians and their impact on information consumption' Martijn van Otterlo Part 2. Calculation in the age of big data Chapter 3. 'Experiencing a personalised augmented reality: Users of Foursquare in urban space' Sarah Widmer Chapter 4. 'A politics of redeployment: Malleable technologies and the localisation of anticipatory governance' Nathaniel O'Grady Chapter 5. 'Seeing the invisible algorithm: The practical politics of tracking the credit trackers' Joe Deville and Lonneke van der Velden Part 3. Signal, visualise, calculate Chapter 6. 'Bodies of information: Data, distance and decision-making at the limits of the war prison' Richard Nisa Chapter 7. 'Data anxieties: Objectivity and difference in early Vietnam war computing' Oliver Belcher Chapter 8. 'Seeing futures' - Politics of visuality and affect' Matthias Leese Part 4. Affective devices Chapter 9. 'Love's algorithm: 'The perfect parts for my machine'' Lee Mackinnon Chapter 10. 'Calculating obesity, pre-emptive power and the politics of futurity: The case of Change4Life' Rebecca Coleman