...This chapter offers a speculative reading of the concept of rhythm in relation to capital and in the context of financial technologies such as trading algorithms, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies (the blockchain), which are treated through a reading of the posthumanist philosophy of Gilles...

...This chapter explores the appeal of rhythm and algorithm; rhythm in rhythmanalysis and algorithm in pattern of life analysis and AI. It compares the origins of rhythm in ancient Greek thought via Benveniste and more recently Pascal Michon with the origins of algorithm in 10th century Persian...

...This edited collection tackles subjects that have arisen as a result of new capabilities to collect, analyse and use vast quantities of data using complex algorithms. Questions tackled include what is wrong with targeted advertising in political campaigns, whether echo chambers really are a matter...

...Dialectometry is a multidisciplinary field that uses various quantitative methods in the analysis of dialect data. Very often those techniques include classification algorithms such as hierarchical clustering algorithms used to detect groups within certain dialect area. Although known...

...The chapter leads to a new reading of the relations between time, technicity and capital, different from those of the industrial factory and recent concepts of the social factory. It makes more explicit the ways in which algorithms intervene in and constitute processes of the capture of value...

...Alvarado provides a detailed examination of different kinds of opacity in algorithms, raising the problems of “many hands” (where to attribute responsibility in complex systems), error assessment, and path complexity. In the process, he offers the reader a demystified understanding of how big data...

...In this chapter, McKinlay argues that the use of big data algorithms introduces a key problem in terms of epistemic opacity. Opacity in various forms is an issue which many authors identify as posing problems for democratic functioning and accountability. In McKinlay’s case, the argument focuses...