Christopher Otter diagnoses the impossibility of fully governing large-scale food systems and the novel ecologies they create.

Like a cartographic exercise, Julien Prévieux traces the outlines of a completely uchronic parallel future, not without wit.

How did plastic garbage patches floating in the ocean become an object of public concern? Baptiste Monsaingeon relates the media campaigns that turned the gradual accumulation of oceanic waste from an abstract and imperceptible concern to a dire emergency requiring
immediate attention.

Jonathan Morduch traces the rise of microfinance, and argues that it’s time for a new vision.

How do cheesemongers extend the value of a dying commodity? Heather Paxson explores how mongers care for living cheese—and for the craft of their trade.

How do you plan for the sudden onset of total war? Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff describe the construction of a vast collection of data about the vital, vulnerable systems of every nation in the world in the aftermath of World War II.

What does it take to flood a highway? Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox examine how old infrastructure projects—and old infrastructural publics—get submerged by new ones in Peru.