…community?” He continued with a hypothetical explanation: “my sense is that folks in particular hacker circles might be interested to know that a reporter is digging on topic X because…

…*** Computer systems were destined for a global cultural and economic revolution that the hacker community long anticipated. We saw the potential; we saw it coming. And while we enjoyed…

…excitement. Enthusiasts found in it an intoxicating combination of the humanistic and the techno-scientific: a new and improved Library of Alexandria, a generation’s moonshot, a humanistic complement to the Human…

“First, the Company was forced to assume all public power. (The unification was necessary because of the vastness and complexity of the new operations.)” —Jorge Luis Borges, “The Lottery in…

…much of Swedish design, a combination of simplicity, affordability, and universality that both reflects and promotes a more egalitarian social order (Murphy 2015; see also Garvey 2017). When applied to…

…today (Collier and Lakoff). From the same period comes the story of a humble social science device: Cantril’s Ladder, used to measure happiness globally and longitudinally (“where on this ladder…

…as “project” was a temporary coming together of people, institutions, money, and materials held together in an alliance that would by definition dissolve upon completion. It was not the public…

…data-sets from the other big automotive and logistics companies, right down to the driver-data collected from people who wore court-ordered monitors: paroled felons, abusive parents under restraining orders, government employees….

by: Nerea Calvillo Presentation as a prototype itself: opens questions through the material of In the Air, a project which makes visible the components of the air. A degree of…

…of order. The goal of projects like E-MELD and the Open Language Archives Community is just that: “to aid in the development of infrastructure for linguistic archives” (E-MELD 2000). For…

…rituals involving human sacrifice, with Clinton seated at head of the occultic new world order (Ohlheiser 2016). These are some of the few stories to come from the trove. Otherwise,…

…the municipality opened a museum devoted to sugar. The relation of the factory to community life is evoked through different aspects: labor and harvesting techniques, sugar beet types, local political…

…kind of politics: data-fueled, evidence-based, more humane? Figure 1: Average Cantril’s Ladder scores over the period 2012–2014 (from Helliwell et al. 2015:20). One way to begin to unpick gross national…

…a preventable disease to spin out of control, with vast harms to social order and human dignity” (Gostin and Friedman 2014). Journalist Laurie Garrett was even more scathing: “The WHO’s…

…context of ecological anxiety, the sentinel has taken on an expanded meaning: it has come to describe living beings or technical devices that provide the first signs of an impending…

…striking only one arrest. On the contrary, the broken window theory, armed with Compstat, allows for one to compile, add, and present very important misdemeanor numbers. Now, Compstat serves not…

…document referred to “sustained community-level outbreaks” in multiple regions but made no reference to the severity of the virus. Four days later, on April 29, the Emergency Committee voted to…

…everything, is enlisted in the monitoring system. Acting like surveillance towers, the stations allow us to “see” a great number of things: ventilation that comes in and comes out, but…

…Turning computing into media was already in the 1960s and 1970s meant to work with technology against technology: by using new computational capabilities, a medium was carved out that complies…

…all between 15 and 22 years old. Continuing the investigation through a case-control study, the Herbst team published its findings in the New England Journal of Medicine: This form of…

…last count, it had had fewer than 4,000 views on YouTube. Why, exactly, do companies want to know about their products’ secret lives? More to the point: why, and for…

…also taught drawing and painting at USC and Art Center College of Design. His personal work explores shadowy sides of “Western Civilization.” To see more of it go to: http://theoccident.blogspot.com/…