Issue 6 The Total Archive »The Bombing Encyclopedia of the World…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…
Issue 0 Prototyping Prototyping »Cross-Cultural Partnership: TEMPLATE and HOWTO…flourish. Good intention is more fundamental than law or codes of conduct. Nonetheless, legal agreements and faith in the law can facilitate the establishment of relationships where trust is yet…
Issue 4 Food Infrastructures »Elements of Food Infrastructure…it was that the geography of civilization’s expanse had been marked by the security of sustenance close at hand, guided from its earliest days by codes outlining the laws of…
ResearchersJerome Whitington…Singapore. He is currently writing a genealogy of the science of anthropogenic climate change, while conducting ethnographic research for a project called Accounting for Atmosphere: Climate change, quantification and the…
ResearchersStephanie C. KaneKane researches the political ecology of water. From port cities of Brazil, Argentina and Singapore to the Canadian Arctic and subarctic, Kane’s ethnography explores the way river and coastal city…
ResearchersLyle FearnleyLyle Fearnley is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Trained as an anthropologist of science and medicine, Fearnley received a Joint Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »Strangling the Internet…cable system (see fig. 1), it’s easy to locate where cable routes funnel through narrow geographic zones. These include the Strait of Malacca (between Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia), the Strait…
Issue 9 Little Development Devices / Humanitarian Goods »Glucometer Foils…to maintain: codes and calibrating fluid; lancets to draw blood from fingertips (for which some people substituted pins or sewing needles); and lithium and other specialized imported batteries, for which…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »Shipping corridors through the Inuit homeland…UNDRIP and the Polar Codes. Shipping Perspectives on Arctic Sea Ice and Maritime Geography For mariners in the shipping industry, sea ice constitutes a barrier to mobility that threatens boat…
Issue 6 The Total Archive »Alan Lomax and the Temple of Movement…Lomax believed that human beings were “revising and reorganizing” their behavior each and every day, and then passing on their collective wisdom “as parts of symbolic cultural codes, rather than…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »“World-World” Logistics in Tangier, Morocco…local, terminal operator, or between codes for ports and correct locations in the terminal yards. In mediating these discrepancies, Noura’s work follows a virtual map of information chokepoints between her…