Issue 9 Little Development Devices / Humanitarian Goods »A Slightly Better Shelter? …and the authorities agreed.[8] The Better Shelter had become “too much” for the Lebanese political context, just as in Switzerland it had become “too little.” The same features that made…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »Golden Futures…what Switzerland is for banking … a free-trade zone,” the geo-engineer in charge of monitoring hydrology and environmental toxicity confided to me. There are many mines along the Canadian Shield,…
ResearchersPhilip Di SalvoPhilip Di Salvo is a researcher and a journalist. Currently, he is a doctoral student at Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland), doing research on digital whistleblowing and the relationship…
Issue 3 Sentinel Devices »Preface: Sentinel Devices…describes the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland as a machine designed to capture signals of environmental threat around the globe. And Christelle Gramaglia explores the use of mollusks as sentinel…
Issue 7 Public Infrastructures/Infrastructural Publics »Europe’s Materialism: Infrastructures and Political Space…Figure 1 indicates, viewed through the lens of the Energy Union, Switzerland is as much a part of pan-Europe as is Tunisia, and bottlenecks between these borders need to be…
ResearchersSara TocchettiSara Tocchetti is an ex-biologist not yet turned into a science and technology scholar. She is an associate researcher at STSLab, University of Lausanne, Switzerland….
Issue 3 Sentinel Devices »The Noise of the World: The Apocalypse and the Crazy Farm Scenario…the Pays de Gex region of France has trembled very slightly and perhaps, just perhaps, faintly hummed”(Beech 2010, 41). In this in-between scientific zone, half in France, half in Switzerland,…