Issue 6 The Total Archive »Fragments of Plague…in the Hawaiian State Archive, a collection initially commissioned by the local Board of Health to document a local and rather minor outbreak of plague in Honolulu. Figure 8 Yet…
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 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…