…Service commissioned a series of reports by climate scientists and a leading American polar bear biologist to determine whether the warming of the Arctic climate might threaten the species’ long-term…

…to isolate whether global warming is changing individual species’ and communities’ location, composition, and timing of species interactions (phenology). “Most local changes,” they write, “are idiosyncratic and consist of noise…

…some revolutionary ambitions. But is it a better tent? Does it live up to its aims of producing a compact, cheap, lightweight product for meeting a basic human need? The…

…Babylon” Many of Borges’s stories follow a similar arc: some seemingly small, innocuous thing—an encyclopedia, a lottery, the act of dreaming or trying to write a novel—expands in scope and…

…Where Amazon might have called AI through computer code, now they could call the labor pool similarly. Amazon’s CEO publicly announced AMT at MIT saying. “You’ve heard of software-as-a-service; well,…

…this is where things get tricky: corporate software developers vehemently deny they are hackers. During our conversations, or overhearing their discussions online, in team meetings, or by the coffee machine,…

…economic measure, power). In this essay, I explore this duality of surveillance through fieldwork in Somerset (UK), and I focus my inquiry on amateur naturalist movements. I have observed a…

…appropriate the technical savvy associated with hackers and the U.S. military and intelligence agencies while distancing itself from the untrustworthy and morally suspect image of hacking. In this essay I…

…the world who have diabetes. Fig. 2. Diabetes mortality. World Health Organization 2014. Used with permission. Today, personal blood glucose meters are widely considered best practice for optimal diabetes management….

…life, are eminently portable, and, as I discuss below, operate at the micro level, targeting individuals’ aspirations, preferences, and calculations rather than any larger macroeconomic aggregate. In this essay I…

…digested, or—if too far gone—tossed out fully to rot. Cheese’s mutability makes it a challenging, but also potentially quite satisfying, item to retail. This essay elaborates on the contemporary art…

…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…

…job creation and private service provision. Meanwhile, sanitation activists see opportunities for community mobilization, claiming basic urban services as a human rights issue. Although sanitation entrepreneurs operating in the hustle…

…denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and even hacks of sabotage (like deleting files), don’t entail document acquisition; thus they fail to qualify as a public interest hack. Finally, some black…

Philadelphia, like many cities in the Global North, has augmented traditional, established, face-to-face workforce education services in public schools, community centers, and library programs with a constellation of digital services…

…residents reeling from high unemployment and crime rates, a decimated tax base, and dwindling municipal services. While grim, Flint’s decline is by no means unique in a region whose cities…

…a broadly neoliberal approach to development that put growth at its core and saw the market as the best way of achieving development goals (e.g., Stiglitz 1998:1). Yet, even as…

…a quick fillip to keep them going. And then as I was writing this piece, I learned that Ted Cruz had deployed Cambridge Analytica to harvest data on tens of…

…of bathtub biotechnology” (Schrage 1992), whereas people practising various forms of genetic engineering at home were called “genome pirates” (Eudes 2002). Last, renowned science fiction writers published stories intertwining biopunk…

…The oil- and protein-rich meal becomes animal feed. The micronutrients become crop fertilizer. It works like this: from April to December, the tiny coastal town of Reedville, Virginia, sends dozens…

…improving basic health care infrastructure in West Africa. Similarly, in a widely distributed London Review of Books essay, anthropologist Paul Farmer laments that “the cycle of fear and stigma, amped…

…the spatial organization of the firm directly into question. Previously, “the typical analysis would be: x tons of widgets must be shipped from A to B; what is the cheapest…

…oft-cited Swedish study from 1993 found that the components of a typical breakfast—apple, bread, cream, orange juice, sugar, and so on—travelled a distance approximating the earth’s circumference before consumption (Pfeiffer…

…is comprised of a broken CD, black VHS box and cheap webcam. A slit in the side of the VHS box enables light from the specimen to enter the box….

…to services such as health care and finance. Sites in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia are notably prominent in the geography of these devices and provide the setting…

…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….

…taleteller. Case No. 9 might easily have found a home there; in fact, I have been contacted by Radio Diaries to explore this possibility. 3. Writing a history of this…

…Hypercard in the 1980s). While the group develops such operating systems, it engages in a process of writing and rewriting code, as well as manifestos, lots of talking, even more…