…rental payment from renewable energy companies and thus directly benefit from wind park development. However, wind parks have also been planned for communally held land, designated by the federal government…

…frontier from centers of expertise to the uncertain realm of the “community.” Community Care Units (CCUs) provide that extension. Drawing on a concept of “community care” originally developed within the…

…understood as “personal biology,” the semiotic-material productions such as biohacking made possible by borrowing from computer hacking seem to be missing a structural and material critique that would take seriously…

…the Republic of Panama, as well as around canal-administered water sources. The Panama Canal moves an estimated 5% of global seaborne trade (Rodrigue et al. 2013:33). Unbeknownst to many, canal…

…has become both the symbolic and material locus for addressing water and sanitation poverty, framed by United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal 6. The toilet has put the “unmentionable” (George…

…exclusionary, as in the conventional account of economic zones—rests upon a particular reading of developmental states. In Myanmar, it is not obvious that the developmental state can provide that point…

…This part proceeds as logic. Figure 1. The Return to Capital (Case 1: Diminishing marginal returns to capital). Entrepreneurs who start with little capital generate far more additional profit than…

…reconceived to include more than a national population? If industrial capitalism ultimately lies at the root of contemporary concerns over inequality and environmental degradation, then what might alternatives to its…

…then the most advanced technological formats allowing scalability: compression devices for storage (the Microcard) and expansion devices for access (Readex machines). The former were opaque cardboard cards that held compressed…

…Many genome scientists wrote accounts of the HGP that brought to the fore these deeper structural transformations that unsettled understandings of the value of shared data—total or otherwise—as the grounds…

…not only in terms of having a proof-of-concept of code that can cause physical destruction—which is something we hadn’t seen before—but also it marks a threshold in international relations because…

…shaped the modern canonical view of the crowd as a model of democratic participation, an avenue for unfettered cultural expression, and an alternative to the stagnating, institutionalized imperative to consume…

…impossible to stop at just one. After all, governments already understood how special cases could be policy instruments. Special cases were how pirate sites and child porn were excluded from…

…considerable cultural cachet, political import, and economic significance. Every few feet, as the national anthem played, one was confronted by Safaricom’s telltale green logo. Although this marketing blankets the country—across…

…perfect duplicates. You can already hear the grinding friction between the words “digital cash.” The “cash” part is crucial; individuals can transact cash directly without having to pass through a…

…planograms, and reworking the store’s environmental context all require different operational arrangements, but none of these tactical innovations fundamentally alters the business model of the supermarket. Facing a crisis, these…

…risks is also apparent in the domain of catastrophe insurance. Traditional models of insurantial risk assessment focus on loss-causing events (sickness, workplace injury, or death, for example) that are normally…

…For Occupy protesters, doxing was a demand for social, not criminal, justice. In doing so, we see that when the dumpster goes digital, movements can expand their political capacity by…

…used almost exclusively to stage Internet pranks), it only fully entered public consciousness in December 2010. Unfolding before my eyes was a distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign: #operationpayback. No…

…may be easy to destroy individual collections, but nothing in history has been able to destroy the idea of the universal library, open for all. For the better part of…

…“not fraud.” (Forensic accounting is a multicredential career for a reason.) The WikiLeaks “Collateral Murder” video was exceptional precisely because it was an unambiguous video of a battlefield killing, and…

…lower-class). Along this second axis, two other categories were contrasted in probability, to use Bourdieu’s words. One category was designated “cultural capital” (teachers, artists, researchers, salaried public employees with degrees…

…degree, from the risk that pertains to individual policies. The comparison is uneven, however, since the case of insurance already builds on the concept of population-level risk, and not just…