…development policy, does that mean that they signal the failure of international development as we’ve known it? Yes and no: yes because many of them have been developed as innovative…

…The logic of totality and the power of a temporal archive have broken down the classic sociological distinction between individual and collective, and all by way of a single question….

…of infrastructural connections, the spatiality of infrastructural flows, and the definition of technical standards? Of course the point cannot be simply that material, spatial, and technical elements shape publics in…

…not do, however, was crowdsource the candidate’s policy platform or electoral strategy. As one highly-active technical volunteer on the Obama campaign describes: “They [Obama’s campaign staff] made it very clear…

…or clerical manager—are also about power, construction, destruction, dreams, fears, and foes. The ability for a developer to secretly create a feature, or cleverly bypass/route around government bureaucracy, can be…

Number of U.S. Presidents who were also painters: 4 Number of U.S. Presidential paintings released by hackers? 23 1 Number of U.S. Presidential nude self-portrait paintings released by hackers: 2…

…all, there is no sense today that the UK’s public infrastructure should necessarily be publicly owned or directly controlled by the state. On the contrary, the National Infrastructure Delivery Plan…

…can interact to cause a species to defy local ecological expectations. Population viability estimates have traditionally relied on statistical analyses to determine probabilities of long-term population declines (Sæther et al….

…it the bedrock of an immanent, monolithic History (though memory and history alike may surely be summoned in and by the archive); rather, the archive is intrinsically multiple, constitutionally liminal.…

…beginning of the sixteenth century, the environmental, botanical, and agricultural landscapes of the continents become each irrevocably altered by knowledge of the other. Alfred Crosby’s description of this “Columbian Exchange”…

…factory brought industrial development to a nineteenth-century agrarian community, employment, local festivals with fireworks in the early twentieth century, and a rock festival today called Suikerrock (Sugar Rock). In 2002,…

We live in a risk society. On a never-ending search-and-destroy mission to eliminate sources of potential harm, we constantly develop new systems to identify it and mitigate it. But do…

…postnatal growth” (vom Saal et al. 2012). Laboratory organisms began living in plastic instead of glass or metal enclosures about the same time Western consumer society was also making the…

…al 2010). Supply chain security initiatives rely on risk management to identify dangerous goods and disruptive people and keep them away from circulatory systems, alternately targeting high-risk containers, shippers, and…

…The logic of smart city policies builds off of the easy utility of personal connectivity to the mobile internet. This infrastructural connection acts as a platform to provide digital facsimiles…

…closed, public and private, transparency and privacy is dissolved by appeal to a second-order principle of openness, which preserves ideological consistency and editorial sovereignty. Indeed, publishing indexes of the de-indexed…

…Holling.[1] In Brittle Power, Amory and L. Hunter Lovins provide a key example in their call to “formulate the principles of a design science of resilience.” They attribute their debt…

…by social forms; it apparently participates actively to the activity of the sensor. Can Tarde’s prophecy of a society totally equipped with sensors integrate this reflexive dimension of the sentinels?…

…for emerging diseases in a way that also acknowledges, and attempts to ameliorate, global inequality in the access to medical and public health infrastructure? An incipient alternative may already be…

…have been proposed in the engineering literature, including functional redundancy, physical redundancy, ability to reorganize, human in loop when needed, predictability of system behavior, complexity avoidance, graceful degradation, inspectability, and…

…monitored the structural conditions that produce highly pathogenic forms of the virus, a turn of attention from viral phylogeny to disease ecology. This monitoring of the ecological conditions of diseases…

…program from the University of Costa Rica, and environmental activists challenged the supposed environmental viability of the water extraction rate endorsed by the utility, municipal council, and investors. They opposed…

…in fact accidentally killed only four bears (Flyger 1967: 53). Of the thirty-eight they had pursued by aircraft over the sea ice near Barrow, Alaska, they had managed to hit…

…many jurisdictions, there is often barely any scrutiny of procurement by local government and other subnational agencies and authorities for any reason, let alone a detailed technical or security assessment….