…pumped at high rates without concern about directly disturbing the smelt or other endangered fish in the delta. Figure 4: The proposed delta tunnels. In late March, the Bay-Delta Imported…

…new relationships, new capacities, or re-arrange existing relationships of knowledge and power. On the other hand, there are the reassuringly familiar collectivities—like “the people” or “the public” or “the community.”…

In 1994, Rudolph Giuliani was elected Mayor of New York following a campaign centered entirely on the problem of public safety. He promised New Yorkers that he would restore the…

…the modern moment can be narrated, in part, as a new era of consumption. Tumultuous change unearthed the foundations of agriculture in search of new stores of plenty the same…

…Number of poems about Hacking in The New Yorker in 1991: Number of times the word “hacker” was used in The New Yorker before 2008: fewer than 10 Number of…

…grounds for their authority, reconceiving the object of development—poverty—by forging new metrics of aid success, by developing new techniques for its measurement, and by adopting new devices amenable to this…

…communication with each other, are at a conceptual stage, yet they herald a new era that expands the domain of economic calculation and communication. The new vision for electricity is…

…quickly moved beyond the highly tailored—bespoke—hacking of a small number of high priority systems. In 2004, the Agency built new facilities to enable them to expand from “an average of…

…neglected consequences of infrastructure development: the destruction of ecological systems, whether on a local or a global scale; the risk of catastrophic accidents or disruptions; and new patterns of exclusion…

…show this property tend to be selected as successful. Every two years or so, the overall process results in a new operating system, which then allows a whole new generation…

…losses in the United States—estimated at $71.4 billion—were most severe in the New York metropolitan area, with its high concentration of vulnerable residences, globally significant businesses, and critical infrastructure (U.S….

…is one such attempt to fill this void that has only begun to emerge since the turn of the new millennium. But this new vision of African-owned development also opens…

…new industry that did not yet exist in the city, but through the process of gaining workforce education, the new industry would see that Philadelphia was a “smart” city in…

…access to air travel which facilitated the collection and circulation of blood samples; new computing technology for handling large amounts of data; and the creation of new international organizations, such…

…contractual obligations and new forms of activism and interest articulation.[3] Both those facing displacement and those buying into new housing estates are learning new forms of contestation and protest, and…

…But Modi, victorious, would go on to embrace Aadhaar with a vengeance. News accounts and popular stories began to circulate about the new PM’s panoptic ability to know what was…

…and flexibility. The new “machine methods” of information management made it possible “to operate with a small fraction of the number of people in the target business that would normally…

…center, nothing but pure chance? We shake our heads together in puzzlement. 20 July 1917, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, blindfolded, drew the first draft number in the lottery…

…context of blood transfusion. The humble setting of Mourant’s clearing house belied its lofty ambitions. Announcing the new Centre, the U.S. magazine Science News-Letter claimed that blood-group data would offer…

…and called every number on the bill to pressure him to negotiate a new contract. Ten years later, this punk turned professional is still scaling fences and doing deep dives…

…their babies, parceled in their woven string bags, on their heads. In 2004, when I visited Begasin Health Centre in Usino Bundi district, Papua New Guinea, diagnosis at a rural…

…circa 2007. People also called numbers randomly in search of phone friends who might become romantically involved and eventually meet face to face. Persistent calls from unknown numbers became a…

…medical supply company known as Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dickson, the story goes, had an accident-prone young wife named Josephine. Concerned about her tendency to acquire…

…“disease implication” within the ecosystem. Although Newman and his colleagues moved to confirm their insights in new research projects, the anthropologist must examine more closely how Newman discovered the unexpected….

…combined with other data points, it gave some clues about what the aquifer we were studying could do for the town of Sardinal and for the new tourism developments investors…

…create new ones as new products come to market and become vehicles for the expression of social distinction. The synaptic function is both descriptive and generative. In order to examine…

…hacks and document leaks. After reminding him it was illegal to seek hacking aid of any sort, I told him that, as far as I knew, the hackers themselves had…

…governing strategy has facilitated the recognition of new collective kinds: new groups of languages can now be compared, and therefore defined; new communities of researchers can interact and share their…

…Columbus of post-modern times, discovered a new “continent”, a New World built by the unintentional consequences of humans’ action. Media from around the world reported the “discovery”, first carefully then…