…new relationships, new capacities, or re-arrange existing relationships of knowledge and power. On the other hand, there are the reassuringly familiar collectivities—like “the people” or “the public” or “the community.”…

…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…

…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…

…communication with each other, are at a conceptual stage, yet they herald a new era that expands the domain of economic calculation and communication. The new vision for electricity is…

…and unrealistic unawareness of the threats nations face today. For many in the intelligence world today, hacking into computers and network infrastructures worldwide is, quite simply, an extension of the…

In 1994, Rudolph Giuliani was elected Mayor of New York following a campaign centered entirely on the problem of public safety. He promised New Yorkers that he would restore the…

…show this property tend to be selected as successful. Every two years or so, the overall process results in a new operating system, which then allows a whole new generation…

The mobile phone revolution in Papua New Guinea (PNG) began in July 2007 when Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien’s company Digicel, in response to the government’s liberalization of the tele-communications sector,…

In the twentieth century, governments around the world assumed a central role in building, managing, and regulating infrastructures that produced public goods in the public interest. Today, however, the status…

…IBM and promoted by Digital On-Ramps’ steering committee and the mayor were not met: the bombastic hype of app-based workforce education as a vehicle for economic promotion was the most…

…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…

…a close examination of Safaricom’s operations in Kenya reveals how new configurations of capital and politics shape life in Kenya today. It is not only through advertisements that Safaricom impresses…

…their babies, parceled in their woven string bags, on their heads. In 2004, when I visited Begasin Health Centre in Usino Bundi district, Papua New Guinea, diagnosis at a rural…

It was the first time the disease appeared in Sierra Leone. It began to make the news in June. Dozens of British newspapers covered the story over the summer. The…

…generate new forms of governing, and new kinds of collectives, by its very execution. Thinking about our contemporary obsession with vast accumulations through the figure of the archive poses questions…

…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…

…losses in the United States—estimated at $71.4 billion—were most severe in the New York metropolitan area, with its high concentration of vulnerable residences, globally significant businesses, and critical infrastructure (U.S….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…share of modern education.” Figure 2. Such is the universalized citizen-subject of Pyidawtha developmentalism, a “new man” for a new era. Yet beyond the public rhetoric of figures like U…

…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…

…confidence had been warranted: few new cases had been reported in either Guinea or Liberia, though MSF “remain[ed] vigilant,” and on May 14, WHO reported that “the outbreak seems to…

…hacks and document leaks. After reminding him it was illegal to seek hacking aid of any sort, I told him that, as far as I knew, the hackers themselves had…

…Columbus of post-modern times, discovered a new “continent”, a New World built by the unintentional consequences of humans’ action. Media from around the world reported the “discovery”, first carefully then…

…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…

…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…

…electricity. On April 25, 2015, the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal prompted new questions about the relationship between energy security, environmental risk, and community resilience. Amid the diverse futures and…