Delight­ed to have a chap­ter pub­lished in Dawn Nafus’ new book, Quan­ti­fied (MIT Press).

 

Abstract
This chap­ter tells a sto­ry of promise, one about London’s bike rental data and how it might be used to re-imag­ine new fig­ur­ings of human-machine rela­tions. Exper­i­ment­ing with the rela­tion­al capac­i­ties of (bio)sensing and the pro­lif­er­a­tion of data-every­where, the pos­si­bil­i­ties of oth­er worlds are imag­ined. Mix­tures of data at all scales are thrown togeth­er, play­ing with and test­ing out a thick­en­ing and enliven­ing of rela­tions, new edges, and mak­ing room for difference—for dif­fer­ent assem­blies of bod­ies, space and time. Rela­tions are brought into being that might just resist the “agen­cies of homog­e­niza­tion” () and that mess about in the uneven­ness and plu­ral­i­ty that makes Lon­don vibrant.

I’ve uploaded a pre-pub­lished draft here.