Colin Koopman: "How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person"

Abstract

Introduction: initialization -- Informational persons and our information politics -- Histories of information -- Inputs. "Human bookkeeping": the informatics of documentary identity, 1913-1937 -- Processes. Algorithmic personality: the informatics of psychological traits, 1917-1937 -- Outputs. Segregating data: the informatics of racialized credit, 1923-1937 -- Powers of formatting -- Diagnostics. Toward a political theory for informational persons -- Redesign. Data's turbulent pasts and future paths.