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…

…ducks, Wang proudly told Newman that bird production could easily be increased, and birds could be exported overseas. Wang also emphasized that the wildness (yexing) of his geese made them…

…infrastructural; one sees what it does much more than what it is. And yet, wind also feels very much unstructured. It is elementally loose, a force that may be captured,…

…coalition was Hermann Scheer, the member of Parliament chiefly responsible for devising new legislation promoting renewable energy. Scheer believed that beyond benefits for the economy and the environment, the promotion…

…2015, to return to the argument: not just that of white hat/black hat, or private individual/state agency, or corporation/country, but the volume of data that could be found, released, and…

…information or a misapprehension about what is newsworthy. What these arguments miss is that most of the major contemporary leaks have seen the professional and nonprofessional spheres working in tandem….

…contain,” however, the new label elides a key and perennial point of contention in LIY forums: what sort of epistemic authority legitimizes the marking of a certain product as genetically…

…an effort to create a new “social contract” with biomedicine in which people agree to share their data in exchange for new knowledge that helps all people (Lu 2013). The…

…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…

…one. It suggests, first, that many are deeply invested in the Twitter network as a political tool, and that some worry that Twitter’s interests might be aligned with the financial…

…whole new form and field of security. Military and civilian authorities from public and private sectors are actively assembling a global architecture of ‘supply chain security’ that aims to keep…

…what kinds of subjects, do they work on and constitute? What relationships do they establish between expertise, government, and the purported beneficiaries of these devices? What politics do they make…

…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…

…new foci of infection, targeting primary or secondary contacts of the infected, and following the importation of the disease to new countries. While the data suggest that while the fatality…

…would be the prototypes of the “Diffused Facade”, a device that, through water vapor, emits and qualifies the air quality into the public space. What is the prototype? Is it…

…nature, but there is nothing especially new about the uncertainty it brings, or about the fear that what that uncertainty hides is an unbearable (and potentially bearless) future. Looking back…

Alberto Corsín Jiménez & Adolfo Estalella, CSIC, Spanish National Research Council When drafting the original call for papers that led to the ‘Prototyping cultures’ conference, we noted that the figure…

…at what light is emitted from it, but also by looking at what light it absorbs. I used my home-made spectrometer to do both of these in an experiment using…

…prepared on short notice, that address a common set of questions: What are the contemporary domains in which the concept of systemic risk is most relevant, and what are the…

…Outbreak, The Hot Zone and the new panic about plagues” (Figure 2). Arguing that Americans were “in the grip of paranoia about viruses and diseases,” he argued that “it is…

…view – while at the same time they constantly calibrate a new way to encounter that world. They change what they know. They intervene in reality. Everyone knows what “focus…