Issue 3 Sentinel Devices »Public Laboratories: Designing and Developing tools for Do-It-Yourself Detection of Hazards…begin from the moment of conception and depend upon an individual’s unique genetic and life history. Corporate and industrial actors spreading misinformation and doubt confound the biological and social investigation…
Issue 9 Little Development Devices / Humanitarian Goods »Microfinance as a Credit Card?…standard units without much customer support; and it is brought into communities without substantial adaptation to the local context. Ideally, context should matter more, but customization is costly. The device-like…
Issue 7 Public Infrastructures/​Infrastructural Publics »Hydraulic Publics…political regimes of the colonial state (Dossal 1991). These colonial histories of public infrastructure continue to matter in postcolonial cities like Mumbai, and trouble the expectations of universal, undifferentiated service…
Issue 2 Crowds and Clouds »Am I Anonymous?…used almost exclusively to stage Internet pranks), it only fully entered public consciousness in December 2010. Unfolding before my eyes was a distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign: #operationpayback. No…