…case Winnie needs to make a quick phone call during the day (100 toea = 1 kina). (On-net calls from one Digicel phone to another are billed at 79 toea…

…compiled in order to meet three objectives at once: first, to produce facts; second, to act upon and transform these facts; third, to create a spectacle around them. It’s not…

…Number of poems about Hacking in The New Yorker in 1991: Number of times the word “hacker” was used in The New Yorker before 2008: fewer than 10 Number 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…

…Viscount Charles “Turnip” Townshend introduces English farmers to the “new agriculture” (the four crop rotation system) that he had observed in use in Flanders. His arguments towards agricultural reform meet…

…is critical to understanding how electricity flows are organized to generate new understandings of expertise and publics. It may help us not only to attend to the making of neoliberalism…

…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…

…100-150 active implants to simultaneously managing thousands of implanted targets” (SID Today 2004a:2). According to Matthew Aid, NSA had built tools (and adopted easily available open source tools) for scanning…

…hackers, and private detectives, dumpster diving has proliferated for all types of reasons. We used to rely on the telephone book to share public information; today, things like phone numbers…

…the need to tackle highly complex technical problems. Bret Victor’s group tries to build a new medium. To get there is less a question of a sudden eureka, but more…

…objects—of working out a politics that corresponds to the new forms of infrastructure.     Photo Credits:Two Roads. Top, Seattle 1954; Bottom: Rwanda/Congo border 2015. Just north of the Battery…

…eye to a climate-changed future. A little more than a month after Sandy’s landfall, Michael Bloomberg, then mayor of New York City, proclaimed, “We can’t just rebuild to what was…

…is one such attempt to fill this void that has only begun to emerge since the turn of the new millennium. But this new vision of African-owned development also opens…

…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…

…new technologies are deployed into the public sphere too quickly and without the knowledge resources on hand to adapt a prototype into a more complex “real-world” situation. IBM emerged as…

…to be called up: Number 258.   Welcome to Bitcoin. Or, rather, welcome to the “blockchain,” the system that underlies Bitcoin. Like Borges’s lottery (that most wasteful of civic activities)…

…collected and preserved at labs around the world years earlier were compared to the 2009 flu strain. The goal was to determine changes in the virus and to see what…

…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…

…medical supply company known as Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dickson, the story goes, had an accident-prone young wife named Josephine. Concerned about her tendency to acquire…

…The speed and flexibility of the Bombing Encyclopedia, according to Lowe, made it possible to address a new problem: the need to prepare in advance for a range of possible…

…persuaded his correspondents to send to him the results of blood-group tests. He channeled the administrative power of an organization with totalizing political ambitions (the WHO) towards the scientific rearticulation…

…any part. The U.S. government established a “Smart Grid Committee’ in 2007 to facilitate movement toward such smart grids. But “smartness” itself was leading to new fears of vulnerabilities, as…

…hackers and security researchers to use high profile breaches to urge corporate executives or government officials to invest more resources into digital fortifications. Other hacktivist techniques, like website defacements, distributed…

…“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….

…everyone in India a unique number—or maybe two unique numbers—stored in supposedly safe databases whose purposes include everything from combatting corruption to delivering “services” to remaking the very composition of…

…biased due to their management’s ethnic affiliation. Safaricom, in contrast, employs foreign management to avoid accusations of favoritism. In its public performances, too, it does its best to present itself…

…say, to focus on reducing the stove emissions harmful to health and climate. To this end, many actors with varied goals have tried to change the way rural people cook…