…connotations of political resistance and the stress on privacy protection and anonymity safeguards is often part of the definition of the identity of hackers as well. For journalists encryption helps…

…But despite the lack of comparable worldwide measures of plastic concentration, and despite the absence of scientific proof of human contamination by plastics’ toxics (Thompson et al., 2009), “garbage patches”…

…and the Office of Defense Mobilization during the Korean War invented various techniques of economic intervention as part of war mobilization efforts. In these agencies, war planners drew on new…

…effects of a range of possible future contingencies. It generated a new kind of knowledge about collective existence as a collection of vital systems vulnerable to catastrophic disruption (Collier and…

…millions of them—OPM’s outsourcing almost certainly would not have posed the same risk as the pooling of digital files. But this combination of centralization of systems and outsourcing of functions…

…between the goals of stove promoters and those of rural people, the poor performance of stoves that do not live up to big claims, the burden of buying new cooking…

…Word of Mouse championed the reemergence of individuals from the blunt taxonomy of traditional marketing, the academic literature on recommendation often focused on the rearrangement of those users into more…

…been dependent on the uneasy management of the dialectics of intimacy and estrangement, of proximity and distance. It is by working these unwieldy middle grounds that new relations of power…

…of the Multitude, a nomad, “plural and multiple,” a new democratic form a la Hardt and Negri (2004:99). The fact that GhostSec took advantage of the erosion of state-based authority…

…of Paris, lies amid a ring of cités (projects) that form a beltway of urban poverty around northeastern Paris. The vast majority of patients are migrants, many from West Africa….

…(Drew and Shane 2013). The founders of the CEH credential quickly distanced themselves from Snowden’s actions, noting that CEHs were required to follow a code of ethics, and that only…

…Such economies of scale facilitated the accumulation of waste materials in sufficient quantities to make possible the profitable reuse of very small, biologically distinct parts of animals: abattoirs harvested glands…

…generate new forms of governing, and new kinds of collectives, by its very execution. Thinking about our contemporary obsession with vast accumulations through the figure of the archive poses questions…

…of Officer Anthony Bologna was one of the critical factors kickstarting the Occupy movement. A week into the occupation of Zuccotti Park, a NYPD officer pepper-sprayed a small group of…

…of Communication, a work hailed by the end of the century as “the Magna Carta of the Information Age.” On that day, Rat riveted a crowd of twenty-five of the…

…of sentinel in alerting the rest of the world to this new disease. Being a border territory, like the envelope of a cell, Hong Kong has become particularly sensitive to…

…a conclusive model of its properties, by the possibility of using different types of assumptions to build that model, and by the types of data and information available for their…

Introduction The video game franchise, Watch_Dogs (Ubisoft 2014), offers a vision of infrastructure hacking as a smooth and seamless tool of hooded urban outsiders who, at the push of a…

…a technical device many of the assumptions, aspirations, and values of those who designed it. In my de-scription of sin taxes I examine the work of a small network of…

…1938 Act passed as a result of public outrage over deaths caused by an adulterated drug product, Elixir Sulfanilamide, and one of the FDA’s most common uses of the new…

…18 U.S.C. Section 1030(a)(5)(A). Morris was tried, convicted and sentenced to three years of probation, 400 hours of community service, a fine of $10,050, and the costs of his supervision….

…Michel Gaudin, who at the time was deputy director of national police, put Eliane Theillaumas in charge of overseeing the implementation of the newly expanded French psou. Eliane Theillaumas in…

…for decentralized forms of grassroots democracy is not because of smart technology, but because of a lack of ideas for smart and politically progressive uses of it. Not only material…

…accumulations have proven themselves to be, more than ever, part of that maddening “universe of things that cannot be disposed of and that keep spawning new things” (Povinelli 2011). Google’s…