Promising to predict all kinds of futures, from political elections to love matches, computational logics and their micro-temporalities operate with macroeconomic forces against geopolitical backdrops. These logics capture movements, affect, and decision-making, producing uncertain political conditions from which a range of conflicting statements, positions and behaviours emerge in private and public lives.

Algorithms act as a homogenising force between financial markets, gaming environments, and social media platforms. Mobilising uncertainty and risk, these logics of prediction alter our actions in the world, narrowing political possibilities and foreclosing futures.

Embracing uncertainty as a strategy of organising and collective action, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Bahar Noorizadeh, and David Capener explore strategies that look to counter these perceptions of political impossibility, asking how speculation can open claims for the transformation of social, political, and intimate lives.