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Celia Lury is Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick. She has a long-standing interest in the ways in which “live” methods contribute to the enactment of social worlds. Her most recent book is Problem Spaces: How and Why Methodology Matters (2020).William Viney is a research fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the project “People Like You”: Contemporary Figures of Personalisation. His most recent book is Twins: Superstitions and Marvels, Fantasies and Experiments (2021).Scott Wark is a research fellow for the Wellcome-funded project, “People Like You”: Contemporary Figures of Personalisation. He is based at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. His main research focus is on online culture.

• 1. Introduction: Figure, Figuring and Configuration.- 2. The Work That Figures Do.- 3. In “The Cloud”: Figuring and Inhabiting Media Milieus.- 4. Figure to Ground: Felicity Allen Interviewed by Celia Lury.- 5. The Research Persona Method: Figuring and Reconfiguring Personalised Information Flows.- 6. Engines, Puppets, Promises: The Figurations of Configuration Management.- 7. Figuring Molecular Relapse in Breast Cancer Medicine.- 8. The Gardener and the Walled Garden.- 9. Data Through Time: Figuring Out the Narrative Self in Longitudinal Research.- 10. Figuring Out Exposure: Exploring Computational Environments and Personalisation in Interdisciplinary Air Pollution Research.- 11. Figures of Speech: Stuck in the Middle with ‘People Like You’.- 12. Ubiquitous Surveillance and Data Selves.- 13. Figuring Accompaniment: The Creation of Urban Spaciousness.