…distinction between prophets of fortune and misfortune. This distinction is not only, as Spinoza assumed, a difference between happy and sad individuals, but the result of a collective process of…

…Of this shifting assemblage floating back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, palm oil and palm kernel oil stand out for having, quite literally, greased the wheels of England’s Industrial…

…plans and left implementation to civic intermediaries: city officials, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector (Wiig 2015b:263). IBM provided the consultation for free; the city was responsible for funding, staffing,…

…the complex thicket of technology and society. Take for example the phenomenon known as “Big Data” and the miraculous new forms of problem-solving, knowledge creation and economic productivity it promises….

…shin. For the better part of the night, he will wait, his headlamp fixed on his legs, catching mosquitoes as they land on his legs attempting to feed. The Human…

…is a form of care for the well-being of non-humans they take in their charge. Counting and making inventories often constitutes a cooperative, affective and descriptive form of surveillance. Naturalist…

…economist who was a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics at the time. The Institute, now the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was founded in 1981.[2] Circa 1979-80,…

…made possible its transfer between bodies. When the war ended, increasing demand for blood forced hospitals to develop strategies for recruiting and managing donors. In some places, hospitals and private…

…But even now the future has cast its shadow on the development. People do not realize it yet, but the flow of capital for construction has dried up, and the…

…totally obvious, of course: if the wide acceptance of substitutes for fresh food created a favorable environment for the consumption of canned foods, the habit of homemade preserves was a…

…its original state within forty minutes. For this, the sentencing recommendation from pre-trial services was 7 ½ years, the government asked for 5, and the judge gave him 2. Again,…

…as much water as possible” during post-storm periods, “pumping levels were ratcheted down for an entire month between mid-January and mid-February” (Feinstein 2016a). She questioned the rationale for the Fish…

…Wikileaks, had just caused a major political firestorm by releasing 220 leaked confidential diplomatic cables, and these companies were targeted by #operationpayback for refusing to accept donations to Wikileaks. For…

…sight, the possibilities for making art, for telling stories, and for surprising oneself and others. Although built with a specific purpose in mind – supporting memory and providing a solution…

…Lien argues, was to forge connections between their products and groups of consumers. A successful connection between a market segment and a frozen pizza product would lead to economic success….

…formed around and by the materiality of the water network and its situated, regular, partial breakdowns in everyday life. Water infrastructures form and are formed by publics for whom water…

…market, forming an “architecture of authority” (Silbey and Ewing 2003). Two forms of authority were relevant: the FDA’s interest in using labels as a tool for market accountability, and physicians’…

…2008) on the map of development and humanitarianism. It has concentrated calls for collective attention in a singular, tangible object. For development organizations, an emphasis on the toilet has been…

…to maintain: codes and calibrating fluid; lancets to draw blood from fingertips (for which some people substituted pins or sewing needles); and lithium and other specialized imported batteries, for which…

For a long time, statistics has had a reputation for wiping out individuality, for describing aggregates only through sums and averages. However, in the 1960s, especially in France, techniques of…

…rhetorical link between indigenous peoples, love of land, and respect for nature may not be a novel statement, but it does index the troubled paradox between forms of energy that…