Precarious accounts: money, sex and power in the industrial revolution

该项目旨在为围绕自我跟踪技术使用的当代争论提供一个历史视角。该项目希望产生新的知识，了解量化自我的实践如何与重大的社会和经济变革联系起来，从工业革命到测量现在塑造世界的大数据系统。它以吉尔伯特•英尼斯（Gilbert Innes）为例进行了研究。英尼斯是一名银行家，以对女性的性剥削和强迫性记账而闻名。预期的结果是19世纪会计如何塑造身份和道德的历史。通过提高我们对量化实践如何塑造社会的理解，这项研究支持了它们在今天的有效使用。

This project aims to provide a historical perspective on contemporary debates around the uses of self-tracking technologies. The project expects to generate new knowledge on how practices for quantifying the self relate to significant social and economic change, from the industrial revolution, through to measuring the systems of big data that now shapes the world. It does so using a case study of Gilbert Innes, a banker known for his sexual exploitation of women and obsessive book-keeping. The expected outcome is a history of how accounting shaped identity and morality in the nineteenth century. Through improving our understanding of how quantification practices shape society, this research supports their effective use today.