…testified: in the wake of nuclear war government officials would be “likely to be working with a severely damaged economy.” It was necessary to “learn how to manage that damaged…

…with cultural ties to the hacking community. When it comes to journalistic and newsroom practices, the most disruptive change came when WikiLeaks began to partner with major news organizations to…

…brought with it, most notably mobile phone towers, internet cables, and electricity. However, the plan to build the dam suggested innovation of a different order. How could something as huge…

…presumed geographical unity of Europe with an unbound topology of a highly fragmented common. We use the notion of topology to draw attention to the fact that infrastructural spaces are…

…businesses are supposed to be governed more powerfully by efficiency objectives: How much does it cost to get the job done? The private incentives are to maximize productivity and minimize…

…biased due to their management’s ethnic affiliation. Safaricom, in contrast, employs foreign management to avoid accusations of favoritism. In its public performances, too, it does its best to present itself…

…create new ones as new products come to market and become vehicles for the expression of social distinction. The synaptic function is both descriptive and generative. In order to examine…

…violence. GhostSec was severing an extremist group’s networking tool, effectively “neutering…[their] ability to use Twitter to broadcast its message outside of its core audience…reducing the organization’s ability to manipulate public…

…say, to focus on reducing the stove emissions harmful to health and climate. To this end, many actors with varied goals have tried to change the way rural people cook…

…HACCP, to ensure food hygiene, constituting a de facto microbiological bunker from which operations can be directed at minimal risk to foreign teams. Ebola too has its Yalta. Figure 3….

…vulnerabilities. However, the CEH credential was not directed primarily toward penetration testers, but rather toward any professionals who could benefit from learning to think like a hacker. It distinguished itself…

…any part. The U.S. government established a “Smart Grid Committee’ in 2007 to facilitate movement toward such smart grids. But “smartness” itself was leading to new fears of vulnerabilities, as…

…were building in the touristy province of Guanacaste. In previous years, developers had raised $8 million to connect their new construction to the Sardinal aqueduct, a system built more than…

…authorities – to express their relation to animals in the language of viruses (Keck 2010). How do all these actors fit together into a “sentinel post”? How do they configure…

…the international tobacco control field. To conclude, I want to reflect on how this story relates to wider historical accounts about the proliferation of micro-technologies within international development and humanitarian…

…vulnerable to Manchurian-Candidate-style ideological engineering. A fleet of behavioral scientists took on the task of studying this phenomenon, this “something new in history,” as writer Eugene Kinkead for the New…

…historically novel “ecotechnical” systems. These systems in turn operate as new environments within which natural selection operates. Food systems thus demonstrate how differences in scale produce emergent phenomena. Canadian railway…

…matter of knowing where to look for information, where to publish it, and ultimately how to use new and old media to unlock its potential. Poking around at the fetid…

…(and the techniques of de-duplicating) troubles the system. Every attempt to combat corruption reveals new possibilities for it. Multiple databases raise the question of how to live with multiple sovereigns,…

…they do with it,” to which King responded: “You’d have to be whack to be mad at information” (Kessler 1994). The new politics of nutrition labeling was no longer framed…

…Viruses operate on the analogy of biological viruses by inserting a bit of code into a running program which exploits a vulnerability to allow it to replicate, and potentially, to…

…to the traumatic event). Based on these debriefings, the psou tries to focus on monitoring the solidarity between the officers, and teaches them how to remain alert to the signs…

…groups of people to collaborate on joint projects. Amplify itself consists of eight challenges, with topics ranging from women’s safety in urban areas to improved refugee education to youth empowerment…

…to shut down all nuclear power plants until 2022 and to replace them with renewable sources of energy was widely seen as a precautionary measure to protect the population from…