…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…

…by macroeconomists and policymakers, known as monetarists and neo-liberals, as a crucial step toward achieving sustainable and long-term economic growth, free of periodic recessionary disruptions due to cyclical adjustments in…

…the trustworthiness of many of his correspondents, but he judged that it was more important to encourage the free sending of data than it was to be too picky about…

…to convert asset data into a single measure, but refrigerators and the inequalities to which they refer are not everywhere the same. Freezing goods, from the mechanically deboned animal parts…

…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…

…labeling where normative and descriptive claims blur, where information has an aesthetic value and attention is the prime commodity, and where there is an interplay between the freedom of “commercial…

…multidimensional. First and foremost, correspondence analysis was seen as a purely descriptive technique (unlike econometrics), with no underlying, implicit economic/theoretical model: free of the ideologically slanted neo-classical theory. It was…

…Its DesignKit website (www.designkit.org) provides popular online courses, field guides, and case studies. Through these free resources and articles in leading magazines such as the Stanford Social Innovation Review, IDEO…

…visiting care groups or sent by relatives in the United States or elsewhere abroad—were priced around $50 to $100. Some corporations even provided them for free if you bought enough…

…series of narratives that make these claims travel globally. But what kind of toilet should be promoted? The Sanitation Problem In December 2009, a group of private sector individuals, nongovernmental…

…caught on. The company displayed enough marketing imagination to distribute it for free to Boy Scout troops across the country, and by 1924 had begun to offer machine-cut Band-Aids in…

…group. Given its understanding that “eggs and juvenile smelt emulate free floating particles in the water column,” the working group argued, it was necessary to again reduce the speed of…

…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…

“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…

…to turn to history: the student movement in Mexico City in 1968 and a guerrilla foco in Chihuahua before that; the Zapatista rebellion, the beginning of the North American Free…