Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society

An inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms

Knitting together contemporary technologies of datafication to reveal a broader, underlying shift in what counts as knowledge, Technologies of Speculation reframes today’s major moral and political controversies around algorithms and artificial intelligence. How many times we toss and turn in our sleep, our voluminous social media activity and location data, our average resting heart rate and body temperature: new tec...