…It was December 2010, and my plans were simple: finish my book manuscript on the politics of free and open-source software hacking and spend time with my family on an…

…day, all their free time, looking through what had come out. And they published their thoughts and their findings in real time on Twitter. For example, one of these people…

…historical forms that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century to produce liberal forms of rule over citizen-subjects freed of the entailments of fragmentary political communities (Joyce 2003). As they proliferated both…

…you to jail? All right then, you’re free to go? I inched toward the car, and the cop twinkled a toodle-oo at us on his fingers. “Thank you, officer.” Jose…

“Who eats pizza in Norway?” In her ethnography of a Norwegian marketing firm, the anthropologist Marianne Lien describes an advertising campaign intended to promote frozen pizzas: In spring 1992, Viking…

…the Situationists International, an influential group of artists, thinkers and activists, promoted the deliberate construction of what they called a moment of life in which one might allow oneself to…

…The processes are recursive, much like the “recursive publics” that Chris Kelty (2008:30) describes for the free software development community: in both cases developers create sociotechnical infrastructures with which they…