…comparable to the listicles of 2014. The July 1995 issue of The New Republic featured a critical article by Malcolm Gladwell, trumpeted on the cover as “Paranoia Strikes Deep. Ebola,…

…loss, ecological shifts and intensified weather is now increasingly confirmed. Moreover, the real-world changes in many cases are outpacing the modeled scenarios. These transformations afford the anthropologist climate watcher an…

…2004). It served to draw attention to the vulnerability of aging American electrical infrastructure and the relative complacency of power companies and governments in the face of multiple risks. The…

…and although the historical records show disquiet over how powerful landowners abused the law, the public generally welcomed the building of the roads themselves, not least for the ways in…

…the other, while males over fifty were taking their original seats. Upon further investigation it was discovered that the men were exiting a nearby showroom at the close of a…

…into the launch of the first “Walmart Discount City” store. The company will grow from a regional company into one of the largest corporations in the world, the biggest employer…

…The BIG U. In developing its final proposals, the BIG team created separate but coordinated plans for three segments of the waterfront and adjacent communities, called “compartments.” Each compartment comprised…

…fires: the social danger they are supposed to fight, sense and report to the bureau and from there to the entire society, and the personal danger they perceive. These two…

…becoming a squeaky wheel. Instead, they will just leave. Second, there is the individual isolation and the dearth of existing institutional organizations. These represent the flipsides of the independence and…

…1970s when the quadruple introduction of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the graphical user interface, and the internet revolutionized what computing could be by turning the computer into a medium….

…the Snowden case strengthened further the connection between hackers and journalists. Whistleblower Edward Snowden had strong affinities with the hacking community; the subjects of the leak – surveillance and cybersecurity…

…(the state of the world, the mysteries of the cosmos), but the state of the world itself (the fact that the world still exists as we speak) that provides information…

…of data on the overall incidence, as opposed to the number of fatalities, of h1n1 in the exposed population. This was the well-known “problem of the denominator.” A team of…

…the temporalities of three hacks ranging from the fast to the slow to the still: we describe the excesses in volume and speed in the Clinton case, the slow journalism…

…“Silence, dear visitor, only silence is appropriate here. We have entered the sanctuary of the sugar factory…the laboratory!” Figure 1. The Macroscope. Thus goes the voice of Professor Zucchero, our…

…top. Suppose we say that the top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you….

…the sentinel is bound up with both the problem of perception and the question of whether the detection of danger can successfully ward off a coming crisis. In the contemporary…

…The executive board room of the World Health Organization. The World Health Organization (WHO) received much of the criticism; the organization learned of the outbreak in March but did not…

…countered by the fact that the other beneficiaries of safety, the much less wealthy, are the ones who pay the price (and Schoolcraft is there to remind us that the…

…for their company. Their product managers didn’t commission this feature, nor was their company ever going to use it. Yet when they finished what they were doing for work, they…

…reverse engineer the Trends results, to uncover the criteria that enliven them (Lotan 2011), most users certainly vary in their comprehension of what Trends measures and how, and may not…

…patients. The doubts of this audience were in part due to differences in principle—the hormonal theory of miscarriages still masked the genetic theory—and, more pragmatically, due to the claim made…

…method and software have streamlined the modeling of product life cycles, while the rise of an LCA professional community—the subject of my own ethnographic research—has boosted the technique’s scientific credibility….