…soil. “What is this doing here?” she asked. Juan explained that the rod was a boundary marker and that the U.S. government—not Panama—controlled the river, the land along its banks,…

…on mysterious food rations. A Kroger supermarket at Kenwood Plaza, Cincinnati tests prototype bar code scanners in July 1972. 1974: Counting Codes: The first bar code scanner is installed in…

…anew an opposition between emergent technology and stable collectives, strengthening the idea that the two are of different orders. In some cases, these terms are optimistic propositions that older kinds…

…fall under ISO–New England’s territory.) Across the ISOs’ collective 2 million square miles of territory, state regulators now fulfill tasks that are derivatives of ISOs’ functions: ensuring that utilities’ retail…

…what the police have to show: that small-time crime exists, that they actively fight it, and that in stemming its tide they also help to reduce violent crime. The collective…

…that puts them outside of assumptions in the wider engineering field of what is obvious, self-evident, time-tested or desirable. Their positions are so heterodox that they often stop calling themselves…

…different definitions of what counts as successful development (World Bank 1998). New Definitions of Success The new definitions of success that began to take hold from the late 1990s onward…

…If, following Noortje Marres (2005), Dewey was interested in the way that publics were “called into being” by problems and events, he also suggested that that they might be “called…

…monitoring, and debating of Africa’s infrastructure. But PIDA’s vision statement outlines that, in fact, it is “countries that will drive and own projects,” and that “funding will rely on strong…

…not viewed as an integral pillar of DoD IO doctrine, it is recognized as an IO-related activity that requires deconfliction with IO” (DCID 7/3 2003: 3). With this new category,…

…and for what it omits. It provided no guidance on which parts of the New York metropolitan region or which specific vulnerabilities competition entries should address, noting only that projects…

…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…

…form at stake is an unrelentingly expanding mass of data in itself, a different figure of mass than that of the mass body and one that demands new conditions of…

…this article I explore some of the sites where infrastructure oscillates between the spectacular and the mundane, creating new forms of publics and counterpublics that symbiotically shape a new national…

…to deny that they had security problems that allowed someone in. They may even deny that the data that came from them is their data. We saw that with parts…

…That he was interested in how hackers went about landing documents to publish signaled that a new strategy—what I am calling the public interest hack—had, by this historical juncture, become…

…likely emergence of new viruses. Looking forward to great advances in biomedicine, they did not consider that those advances would inevitably be accompanied by new ideas about what it means…

…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…

…of one official investigation, Eugene Spafford, pointed out, the code contained no commands that would harm a computer on which it ran, only commands intended to exploit vulnerabilities that allowed…

…this earth” by producing a new kind of knowledge that focused on risks to the critical systems that underpinned collective life. The mission articulated by McDermott was the outcome of…

…What were the options here? Pneumonia, malaria, diarrhea, hopefully not tuberculosis. The nurse was so familiar with the symptoms and the treatment possibilities that she rarely opened the small standard…

…journalism” has been used to explain the context in which new formats of news making, new identities, and new professional boundaries have been set. Data journalism is a good example…

…Group (TSDG) issued a formal complaint to JICA claiming, among other things, that no consultations preceded evictions; that compensation has been insufficient and the relocation site unsanitary; that the government…

…project as a kind of opportunity—an infrastructural undertaking that would bring roads, a greater flow of tourists, and increased political connectivity. As a well-educated man, he also knew that the…

…understood as social and material assemblages that include more than the discrete handset, were taken up in ways that exposed the premises of a robust moral economy: what companies, consumers…

…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…

…explores this entanglement, and asks: what are the politics of disclosing vulnerabilities? What new risks and changed expectations exist in a world where it is not clear who is hacking…

…into an IBM card using a coding system. “The combination of the maps and the codes,” Lowe summarized, “is what constitutes the Bombing Encyclopedia” (1946:13). Using it, an analyst could…