…Viscount Charles “Turnip” Townshend introduces English farmers to the “new agriculture” (the four crop rotation system) that he had observed in use in Flanders. His arguments towards agricultural reform meet…

…individual preference has become, and how it is being programmed into the heart of the tools we use. Because it is so easy to look directly to social media and…

…is critical to understanding how electricity flows are organized to generate new understandings of expertise and publics. It may help us not only to attend to the making of neoliberalism…

…failing to get the attention of the upper echelon of the police department, he decided to give the recordings to The Village Voice, a New York publication with huge distribution,…

…the need to tackle highly complex technical problems. Bret Victor’s group tries to build a new medium. To get there is less a question of a sudden eureka, but more…

…festivals. Digicel billboard in Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, 2015. Photo by D. Doiki Most important, Digicel delivered wireless service to areas where it was never before available…

…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…

…have followed it, frame today’s infrastructural problem in terms of finance: How are African governments going to access enough capital to meet large-scale infrastructural needs? In response, 14 African governments…

…for the defense… before you get too excited about this ‘target-rich environment,’ remember, General Custer was in a target-rich environment too! (Redacted 1997: 9; emphasis added). The Air Force and…

…new technologies are deployed into the public sphere too quickly and without the knowledge resources on hand to adapt a prototype into a more complex “real-world” situation. IBM emerged as…

…a deterministic way. We still have to consider how public infrastructures—and thus these material, spatial, and technical elements—result from collective decision-making arrangements. How is the power to plan, build, and…

…eye to a climate-changed future. A little more than a month after Sandy’s landfall, Michael Bloomberg, then mayor of New York City, proclaimed, “We can’t just rebuild to what was…

…or NGO—but no one knew how long it had been there or how to use it, and no one had the key to the wooden cabinet in which it was…

…than happy to advise the British. Gaston Muraz, head of the service, personally came to Gueckedou to meet with Lourie, and took him in the field to witness the functioning…

…introduced by bureaucratization causes the agents of infrastructure to disappear into a world of regulation and adjudication. New China. Photo by Lain In the more extreme cases, however, people literally…

…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…

…collected and preserved at labs around the world years earlier were compared to the 2009 flu strain. The goal was to determine changes in the virus and to see what…

…persuaded his correspondents to send to him the results of blood-group tests. He channeled the administrative power of an organization with totalizing political ambitions (the WHO) towards the scientific rearticulation…

…hackers and security researchers to use high profile breaches to urge corporate executives or government officials to invest more resources into digital fortifications. Other hacktivist techniques, like website defacements, distributed…

…virus, the public health understanding of the disease now had to take other elements into consideration: in particular, the extent to which its virulence and transmissibility—its capacity to provoke a…

…or do not draw together, then and now, one might follow, instead, whom and what infrastructures actually connect or bring into relation, and how new technologies may redistribute the main…

…scaled up to 100 kilowatts, to provide electricity to 116 households, a variety of communal buildings, and the recently rebuilt monastery at Kyanjin Gompa. The project is also expected to…

…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…

…22: MSF launches emergency response: doctors, nurses, logisticians and hygiene and sanitation experts to Guinea, sets up isolation units in Guéckédou and elsewhere; sends 33 tons of supplies from pre-packaged…

…to hold onto the talent that they had. And that’s not going to change. They’re not going to be able to pay the salaries that the private industry can pay….

…Target list from Joint Target Group Japan Report (December 1944). The target numbers correspond to some of those on the target map in Figure 3 (JTG/1A-4). After the war, military…

…various media and a universally accessible web archive; the challenge being to move literally “From Notecards to the Web,” “Shoebox to the Web,” “Filemaker Data to the Web,” prior integrative…

…the community would have to work together to post false transactions, double-spend money, or otherwise mess with the system. The winner of the solution race gets some new bitcoins, in…

…to a new danger absent from the earlier metaphor, namely the problem of plastic toxics components’ bioaccumulation in the food chain. Moreover, this new expression points to a movement of…