ISSUE EIGHT:

Hacks, Leaks and Breaches

February 2017: Every day brings news of a major hack, leak, or breach. No one is immune to the flood of data dumps, infiltrations, and hacks. From the hacking of elections to the surveillance of dissidents, hacks and hackers are transforming our world, creating new collectives and challenging our definitions of security, activism, and politics.

ISSUE SEVEN:

Public Infrastructures / Infrastructural Publics

July 2016: Issue 7 explores new formations of infrastructure, publicness, and expertise in the early 21st century. How do experts conceive publics, and make claims in their name? What new demands are publics making on experts? And how are earlier norms and techniques of infrastructure provisioning being adapted in the process?

ISSUE SIX:

The Total Archive

March 2016: Vast accumulations saturate our world: phone calls and emails stored by security agencies; every preference of every individual collected by advertisers; ID numbers, and maybe an iris scan, for every Indian; hundreds of thousands of whole genome sequences; seed banks of all existing plants, and of course, books... all of them. Just what is the purpose of these optimistically total archives, and how are they changing us?

ISSUE FIVE:

Ebola's Ecologies

January 2015: How has the 2014 Ebola outbreak put the norms, practices, and institutional logics of global health into question? What new assemblages are being forged in its wake? What are the ambitions and the limits of humanitarian medical response? Has it changed the contemporary organization of global health security? Are new models of biotechnical innovation being established?

ISSUE FOUR:

Food Infrastructures

May 2014: Issue four addresses scale in food production, provision, and consumption, beyond the simple producer “push” or consumer “pull” accounts. Instead we focus on the work that connects producers to consumers. Contributors examine the reciprocal relationships among consumer choice, personal use, and the socio-material arrangements that enable and constrain our everyday food options. Read the Issue...

photo by Peter.clark

ISSUE THREE:

Sentinel Devices

June 2013: The polar ice cap rapidly recedes; colonies of honeybees collapse in alarming numbers; androgynous fish are detected in rivers and streams. These reports not only describe recent events, but also function as signs of an ominous and rapidly encroaching future.

In issue number three of Limn we focus on how this future makes its appearance in the present.

ISSUE TWO:

Clouds and Crowds

March 2012: From the power and politics of statistics and algorithms to crowdsourcing’s discontents to the capriciousness of collectives in an election; from the focus group and the casino to the worlds of micro-finance and data-intensive policing. Read more …

ISSUE ONE:

Systemic Risk

January 2011: A central topic of expert discussion and political debate amidst the financial crisis, but also across many other domains in which catastrophic threats loom – including internet security, supply chain management, catastrophe insurance, and critical infrastructure protection... Read more …

Issue Zero:

Prototyping Prototyping

Before there was LIMN, there were several different prototypes... Read more …