Issue 7 Public Infrastructures/Infrastructural Publics »The Zone of Entrainment…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…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »Ecological Chokepoints…landscape, bringing the ocean to New Orleans’s doorstep. Figure 3: Historic delta lobe formation in the Lower Mississippi River Delta. The ecological chokepoints of the Lower Mississippi have an additional…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »The Times of ChokepointsAt the mouth of the Bengal delta sits the Sundarbans, the world’s largest remaining mangrove forest. The Sundarbans is a protean landscape, made up of a dense interlocking set of…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »Can You Secure an Iron Cage?…could have been thwarted. In short, OPM was a sitting duck. “A LinkedIn for Spies” In July 2015, the news got even worse for Washington. United Airlines revealed that it…
Issue 3 Sentinel Devices »Snaring Vectors…flight and indoors feeding (Kelly, 2012). While attempting to simulate natural conditions (traditional architecture, thatch walls, human sleepers) these experimental replicas of the domestic realm are structurally modified to render…
Issue 7 Public Infrastructures/Infrastructural Publics »Preface: Public Infrastructures / Infrastructural Publics…arrangements of publics, experts, and infrastructures. Consider Andrew Lakoff’s study of water management and the protection of an endangered species in California—a small fish called the delta smelt. At one…
Issue 4 Food Infrastructures »The Oil Palm Kernel and the Tinned Can…back some 5,000 to 6,000 years, with oil palm fossil pollen identified in Miocene layers in the Niger Delta and archeological evidence of an oil palm trade among third-millennium Egyptians…
Issue 3 Sentinel Devices »Hong Kong as a Sentinel Post…500 species have been observed on the territory. Shrimp ponds (gei wai) on the Pearl River Delta around the village of Mai Po have been transformed by the World Wildlife…
ResearchersJason Cons…shaping the delta and the India-Bangladesh border in the present. His first book, Sensitive Space: Anxious Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border, was published by the University of Washington Press in…
Issue 6 The Total Archive »Alan Lomax and the Temple of Movement…terms.”[8] This flight from numbers seems, at first, at odds with a project that generally emphasized its quantitative, scientific credentials. An integral part of Lomax’s methodological theory, however, was that…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »Viscosity: A Minor Theory of Oil Capital Flow…first barrel, as if to join its line of flight, “their calloused hands, hardened by work, stained with the black gold that symbolizes their hope.” The Refinería Estatal Esmeraldas (REE)…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Medical Vulnerability, or Where There Is No Kit…attempted flight by patients (Hewlett and Hewlett 2008:56–57; see also McCoy 2014). They also inspired misgivings and soul-searching on the part of caregivers. A report from a 2001 workshop on…
Issue 3 Sentinel Devices »Figures of Warning…rehabilitated it as a primitive knowledge of nature. The Romans put the interpretation of natural phenomena at the heart of their techniques of divination. The observation of the flight of…
Issue 2 Crowds and Clouds »Engineering Collectives: Technology From the Coop…to flight, were gradually realizing that advanced research in the field was rather about fight. No one explicitly told them they must toe this line; rather, faculty rehearse subtle narratives…