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San Francisco, California. Waiting in line, 2031 Bush Street, for voluntary inoculation against typhoid. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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Celebrate ten issues of Limn with Issue Number 10! This issue explores chokepoints, sites where malfunction, blockage, or strategic pressure constricts—or “chokes”—the flows upon which contemporary life depends. How, why, and when do chokepoints emerge? How are they negotiated?
Issue 0 Prototyping Prototyping »
What is a prototype and why is it a salient contemporary figure? This collection of writings was provoked by a conference, held in Madrid in November 2010. The goal was to “prototype” a conference publication before the conference itself, both as a demonstration of the process envisioned by ARC studio, and as a way to… Read more »
Issue 0 Prototyping Prototyping »
“It’s just we wanted, we needed something for the deployment which would kind of work in a general way. […] So there were problems with it, it’s not a kind of definitive answer, but it certainly found its uses.” Drawing on the analogy of a box filled with mementos, stored under the bed, or in… Read more »
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »
Issue 9 Little Development Devices / Humanitarian Goods »
Issue 0 Prototyping Prototyping »
A publication organized prior to the conference and constructed in time (though only barely) to circulate there. For some, this experiment provided a way to reflect on the relationship of presentation and writing, and the ways that conferences structure and circulate expectations about what kind of work can and should be done there, as opposed… Read more »
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »
