…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…

…– should be practiced “on the avian level.” Tracking the mutations and reassortments of the flu virus in birds allowed microbiologists to anticipate a new strain that could successfully pass…

…arguing that engineered systems for generating electricity, increasing agricultural productivity, and expanding habitable terrain were having disastrous effects on wildlife and on ecosystems. New publics emerged to speak for those…

…world—Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the New York Public Library, and the University of Michigan, to begin—and to make those books accessible online. The news astonished interested observers, eliciting both fear and…

…freedom, an anxiety that gave rise to what is arguably his most famous metaphor: the “iron cage” (stahlhartes Gehäuse). Weber’s metaphor paid homage to the dominant form of production at…

…“disease implication” within the ecosystem. Although Newman and his colleagues moved to confirm their insights in new research projects, the anthropologist must examine more closely how Newman discovered the unexpected….

Thanks to the development of new methods at the interface of ecology and chemistry first pioneered in the 1970s, environmental sensors such as sentinel organisms are today used to detect…

…MSF—de facto the only organization capable of managing viral hemorrhagic outbreaks—had expected. But when Ebola cropped up in cities—Conakry (Guinea), Monrovia (Liberia), and finally Freetown (Sierra Leone)—tracking and isolating individual…

…leak—“Lonesome” Rhodes unwittingly insulting his public in A Face in the Crowd on a hot mic, or newspapers breaking the mistress story in Citizen Kane—but Podesta-size, Cablegate-size leaks (hundreds of…

…1950s, settled the steep, forested lands along the Boquerón River. Word had spread through campesino networks that this region was tierra libre (free land), where a hardworking family could make…

…is, for Twitter, caught between competing desires: reporting back what Twitter users care about most, versus drawing new users into new conversations. Users too are caught between competing desires: wanting…

…to improving conditions of existence and the quality of lives. They thus require and entail the assembly of new kinds of expertise, new visions of a better future (whether for…

…point of production to the point of consumption.” Systems thinking gave rise to a new approach known as ‘integrated distribution management’, a new name for the field ‘business logistics’, and…

…a being as a blind omnibus driver or a deaf orchestral leader would be to-day. I might freely say, then, that each of our senses gives us, in its own…

…for when he helmed the country’s flagship general store near our family home on the salty, bustling peninsula of Conakry, Guinea. It was the 1930s, and rhum agricole, soap, tinned…

…perceived.”[2] This curtain was an intellectual one—it featured news coverage, for example, that neglected the concerns of the distant and the poor—but it was also something more. Lomax had begun…

…Health, the Ebola virus had been isolated in European laboratories and the WHO knew there was an Ebola outbreak in Guinea (Sun et al. 2014). Some might complain that those…

…of IkoToilet’s model—pay-per-use public toilets—is by no means new. By turning the basic need into an experience of leisure and consumption, however, the IkoToilet aims to challenge the idea that…

…one neighborhood, they would invariably generate new protests, new petitions, and new publics in another. These publics (like the ones that preceded them) would demand that it is the duty…

…description for a new paradigm of knowledge-production: where hospitality is taken to frame the conditions of possibility of new knowledge. Works Cited Candea, M. & G. da Col. 2010. The…

…be considered a relatively new form of control – one that approaches “ultrarapid forms of free-floating control” (Deleuze 1992: 3). As technical means of “getting in tune with the reality…

…produced in India by Whisper Design of New Delhi, coordinated by Sunita Chakravarty of the Regional Water and Sanitation Group in New Delhi in 1994. This copy owned by the…

…businesses more vulnerable to disruption. New infrastructures have extended the logic of systemic risk into new domains, as in the case of digital information infrastructure – analyzed here by Christopher…