…sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence of its member states,” but also to “promote democratic principles and institutions, popular participation, and good governance” (African Union 2002). Today, the African Union is…

…its missions consistent with the Fourth Amendment and all applicable laws. But senior leadership must understand that today’s and tomorrow’s mission will demand a powerful, permanent presence on a global…

…previously greeted citizens’ arrival at this venue of national and sporting spectacle. Today both he and a state that once seemed omnipresent are sidelined, their importance mediated by a company…

Vast accumulations of data, documents, records, and samples saturate our world: bulk collection of phone calls by the NSA and GCHQ; Google, Amazon or Facebook’s ambitions to collect and store…

…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…

…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….

…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…

…region. But if the region’s apple and pear orchards stand for healthy sweetness, then what does the sugar beet and its refined sugar stand for today? Sugar has become suspect…

…spaces. As both observer and expert, I can see some curious discrepancies between the internal struggles of a unique and complex industry and the criticisms and projections of public audiences…

…cold” seems a hallmark of grand civilization. The Chinese, Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans all stored snow and ice under insolation for use in cooling drinks and medicines. In southern Europe…

…the code to copy itself and spread. On the other hand, his conviction for Fraud and Abuse clearly sends a different message—that this was a criminal act, and as the…

…hackerly and Open Source approach to biological construction [is] one that trades on the equation of DNA to source code and then posits that such code must be editable and…

…of acquisition and release of the ClimateGate and Podesta email databases changed the way the databases could be thought about and thought with, foreclosing some avenues of interpretation, legitimization, and…

…the failure to build sound epidemiological cohorts, the lack of visibility of “dedicated” clinical structures, and finally the very weak dissemination of epidemiological and clinical knowledge. Today, the absence of…

…narrow focus on Indo-European language and culture, Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and their students set out into the field—first with phonographs, then with tape recorders—to capture, transcribe, analyze, and ideally…

…then discuss how the authority and credibility of the certification was ultimately limited by the tension between the goals of professionalism—to standardize and authorize knowledge practices—and the creative and subversive…

…hacks, leaks, and whistle-blowing? And why did it come into being only between 2007 and 2011, when it was conceivable—ideologically and materially—for it to have emerged much earlier? Prior to…

…consequence: the volume of data, and the space of available interpretations. (These two components share an interesting symmetry with Gorham’s argument about episteme and doxa —truth and opinion—and the consequence…

…whistleblower and former NSA employee Edward Snowden. Snowden’s disclosures were parsimonious and carefully chosen, accompanied by careful and contextual reporting, and their overall sequencing was staggered over the course of…

…Birmingham and Crossrail (an underground line connecting Heathrow airport to the City financial district and the East End) (fig. 1); super-fast broadband to 95% of all UK premises; new hospitals…

…few hours a day, and only to “co-operative housing societies”—in slums and high-rises alike— that then deploy various technologies to gather and distribute this water among their members every day….

…the lines between public and private interests; between obligations, gifts and commodities; and between long-term improvement and short-term relief. Limn 9, “Little Development Devices/Humanitarian Goods,” examines the tremendous intellectual and…

…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…

…always kept the wireless jailbreaker and the stick separate — plausible deniability. The jailbreaker had legit uses, and wasn’t, in and of itself, illegal. I plugged the USB in and…