Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Part I. Beyond the NSA Debate
5. 1. Intelligence Agency Logic 3
6. 2. Double Indifference 8
7. 3. Self-Tracking and Smart Things 13
8. 4. Ecological Data Disaster 17
9. 5. Cold Civil War 24
10. Part II. Paradigm Change
11. 6. Data-Mining Business 35
12. 7. Social Engineers Without a Cause 39
13. 8. Silent Revolution 44
14. 9. Algorithms 50
15. 10. Absence of Theory 59
16. Part III. The Joy of Numbers
17. 11. Compulsive Measuring 67
18. 12. The Phenomenology of the Numerable 72
19. 13. Digital Humanities 80
20. 14. Lessing’s Rejoinder 87
21. Part IV. Resistances
22. 15. God’s Eye 97
23. 16. Data Hacks 102
24. 17. On the Right Life in the Wrong One 113
25. Epilogue 119
26. Postface 122
27. Notes 129
28. Index 151