…new abundance, as diversity and demand rest hand in hand. The threat of dystopian calamity cascades calmly through the contradictions of the time. The world starves in an age of…

…There are (new?) collectives of people and (new?) collections of data about which we actually know very little, and there is too often a demand to speak in haste, to…

…who design markets (engineer-economists, if you will), traders employed by the buyers and sellers (i.e., generators and utilities), and computing experts who assist both market designers and traders. Even as…

…NYPD. They were hand-picked and presented as an elite team, and then split up in the room according to a hierarchy: detectives up front, then sergeants and finally lieutenants. They…

…are based on politics. And resources. And qualified personnel. And care. And steering. In short, they need to be continually produced. As such, bootstrapping can assume different scopes and directions….

…new and dynamic assemblages of public and private actors, claims, and practices to simultaneously pursue public goals and private interests (Best 2014a). Contested Failures Of course, policy failures occur all…

…even the most important story about ownership in African infrastructure today: governments and development institutions are also articulating new notions of and techniques for the African ownership of infrastructures and…

…ex-spies, and soldiers to develop the new homeland security state. This intellectual framework justified the dramatic leap in the foreign depth and domestic breadth of the acquisition, collection, and analysis…

…renewable energy through decentralized and market based mechanisms. As Andreas Folkers and Canay Özden-Schilling show in articles on renewable development in Germany and the United States, respectively, liberalization and market…

…a low-tech, “dumb” policy strategy. These efforts harness the ubiquitous connectivity and data-gathering potential of digital infrastructures: the internet and wireless mobile communication, smartphones and other computing gadgets, and also…

…Dutch water planner who conceived RBD, proclaimed that the competition set “a new standard of regional resilience in design and development, in building and rebuilding” and presented “a way to…

…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…

…as a kind of living thing. This terrain involves a host of newly mobilized things: the silo and its loneliness; the loss and recovery of the social; security and its…

…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…

…nothing less than a new way of understanding human history and diversity, revealing “the genetic relationships of different groups of people” and making visible the “past nomadic wanderings and migrations…

…force. With Anonymous and WikiLeaks, hackers pushed the levers of power in new and far more consequential ways, making hacks and leaks the stuff of foreign policy briefs and international…

…and clumsy citizens to treat minor cuts and abrasions quickly and reliably wherever they found themselves. The early 20th century housewife and shop operator each gained new assurance in their…

…business executives and politicians clustered beneath a tent, looking on as a marching band and cheerleaders streamed forth. Japanese and Myanmar flags danced in the breeze atop the flag poles,…

…been living with and adapting to geological hazards and climatological exposures: repairing homes, trails, and other local infrastructures as needed in response to landslides, avalanches, earthquakes, and storms. They have…

…intimates was welcomed by some, decried by others, and regarded with ambivalence by most people. New ways to express care and concern—such as sending and receiving credit requests for airtime—were…

…seen espionage and political espionage is not something new. The only thing that’s new here is the leaking of the data that was stolen rather than, let’s say, the covert…

…cables from WikiLeaks, a thousand digits of pi, texts from the Bhagavad Gita and the Pope, ASCII art and Valentine’s Day messages, and encoded images and mysterious encrypted files. This…

Journalism and hacking are getting closer in recent times. WikiLeaks, the Snowden case and the other published “megaleaks” have blurred the boundaries between newsrooms and hackers and inspired the rise…

…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…

…“to stimulate and facilitate the diagnostics industry to adapt available technologies to develop new diagnostics” (WHO 1998:2), and to call for partnership and engagement between the public sector and industry….

…are a product of time: On the one hand, they became a threat for ecosystems over decades of intensive consumption and disposal of plastic items; on the other hand, more…

…the RAND Corporation, the Stanford Research Institute, and the Institute for Defense Analysis – and in key government offices such as the Federal Civil Defense Agency and military research organizations…

…form was filled out that included: (1) codes for machine processing; (2) information identifying and locating the target; (3) information on the category of the target and its individual characteristics;…