…most centrally involved in planning for national survival in the mid-1950s. Flemming told the Committee, “we are concerned over the lack of basic information [about] those items essential to survival…

…slightly and attend to the assumptions it carries in the moment of its deployment. Is there not another kind of enchantment involved in criticizing interventions with generic demands for “structural…

…in school and bring them in for regular health check-ups. The funds are supposed to help poor people respond to immediate shocks, whereas the conditions are aimed at increasing the…

…Cities Challenge initiatives took the potential of ICT infrastructure to connect city to citizen in original, often untested ways. These initiatives proposed harnessing ICT’s potential to address a “matter of…

…people increasingly use the internet (and write emails) instead of the telephone; and in order to do so, they must divulge their IP address to an ISP in order to…

…supporters working alone, or gathering in geographic and affinity groups, canvassed communities across the country, providing critical organizational infrastructure for the campaign in key states. Supporter involvement was by design…

…vast industrial parks flooded. Likewise, large numbers of smaller Thai businesses either didn’t have insurance or came to realize it was inadequate. The overarching financial health of international insurers became…

…anywhere in the country,” said the consultant. “Ask him to guess what chain he is in.” Chances are, he can’t. The “punchline” is left unsaid, because grocery insiders intuitively know…

…for political mobilization.[2] A Beautiful Toilet In 2008 EcoTact installed an IkoToilet in Mathare, the first and only installation to date in one of Nairobi’s low-income settlements. The Mathare IkoToilet…

…Food and Drug Administration shall not approve for use in food any chemical additive found to induce cancer in man, or, after tests, found to induce cancer in animals.” The…

…“contracting” in which trust (interpersonal and in a sovereign) is replaced by math (Brunton). Today we can imagine a perverse census at a shocking scale: two competing efforts to give…

…that indeed, they do “gain power” with the competences to manipulate a certain technical system, but they do so: …to regain a space for creativity. In the end, it’s our…

…presumably functioning national public health systems, and toward an intensive effort to mobilize international assistance.[4] However, unlike the outbreak of a novel strain of influenza in 2009, the detection of…

…that transformations in the West African landscape (including deforestation and road building) have combined with increased human mobility and a chronic deficiency in public health infrastructure to make human-to-human transmission…

…Genome Variation Consortium to the Mexican Genome Diversity Project: initiatives to collect blood for mapping human variation have promised powerful insights into disease causation. Related, large-scale genetic mapping projects project…

…shown how academic priorities and industry interests can lead to a “normatively induced ignorance” in insect toxicology because certain observations and measurements related to pesticide effects are valued over others….

…so Books that Shaped a Century of Science” (Morrison and Morrison 1999). Preston’s work also inspired intense interest in the culture industries—Preston has claimed that “within two months of the…

…articles in this issue suggest that in many cases, and in important ways, they cannot), we wanted to devote equal attention to the places where these devices are invented and…

In winter of 2014, an inquiry from a journalist landed in my email inbox. His message opened innocently: “how can I can safely and effectively get plugged into the hacker…

…Encyclopedia. Systemic risks in finance are made visible through inventories of financial institutions, with their interlocking liabilities. Portfolio risks in insurance are grasped through inventories of insured properties, models of…

…In this sense, fat/cholesterol is a risk object with systemic effects. However, there is more. It is interesting to note that this risk object is a double. Depending on the…

…retailer or distributor, intentionally tampers with a consumer product that is sold in interstate or foreign commerce by knowingly placing or inserting any writing in the consumer product, or in…

…“an informational commodity indispensable to productive power.” Indeed, he asserted, it was “a major—perhaps the major—stake in the worldwide competition for power” (Lyotard 1979:5. Certainly, by the mid 1990s, actors…

…“risk of foreign exploitation” associated with mere “‘contact with a foreign family member.” For instance, the information collected to adjudicate a simple Top Secret single-scope background investigation includes a “Personal…

…interpretative authority.” This is deemed problematic because individuals without journalistic expertise and those with existing ideological standpoints are liable to mistake the “illicit aura” of exposed intragroup communications for the…

…intimate collective that represents itself to itself constantly. In its ideal version, this happens completely without human control or intervention, making the local into a universal. In reality, such “automation”…