…individual involved in a meaningful struggle. Rather, according to a cybernetic approach to “biological and social systems,” he was information that circulated within a system. According to prominent psychologist James…

…is often ambiguous or contested. Indeed, their efficacy in inciting action varies. In the case of climate change, for example, indicators pointing to global warming have proven able to stimulate…

…individual preference has become, and how it is being programmed into the heart of the tools we use. Because it is so easy to look directly to social media and…

…lender decided to close a card or cut a line, an individual’s overall credit limit was lowered, and the ratio of line to limit use was instantly increased. This in…

…into those enormous steel bins. Because the Internet is designed to capture and distribute information to the widest audience, once information is posted, it is difficult to erase. The tools…

…investigated the area are entirely unreliable but…this situation appears to call for a more careful investigation to determine the incidence of infection and the area of country involved.” Responding to…

…to its time and status information. This string is then signed with NIST’s private key, a cryptographic tool for proving that NIST in fact sent it; that collection of data…

…etc. Such objects are far too large and complex for a guy in a tent in a village to inquire into. The other problem that “concept work” addresses is the…

…on how to describe the air, and it is a machine in permanent change. it uses a primitive form (a type?), a topography as a generic experiential codification, to describe…

…Encyclopedia. Systemic risks in finance are made visible through inventories of financial institutions, with their interlocking liabilities. Portfolio risks in insurance are grasped through inventories of insured properties, models of…

…into the next and never went to waste. The storage space was useful enough, but she hadn’t asked for the refrigerator. The number of grocery stores in Guatemala doubled in…

…Genome Variation Consortium to the Mexican Genome Diversity Project: initiatives to collect blood for mapping human variation have promised powerful insights into disease causation. Related, large-scale genetic mapping projects project…

…introduced by bureaucratization causes the agents of infrastructure to disappear into a world of regulation and adjudication. New China. Photo by Lain In the more extreme cases, however, people literally…

…also began to incorporate genomics into their analytic repertoire. They searched old blood for fragments of dna that could and have since informed studies of infectious diseases, including h1n1, h5n1…

…and strengthen local, national and international negotiations to win institutional and financial support for preservation efforts. The now common use of atlases which provide tool to enable users of biodiversity…

…peaked in the late 1960s; it was recommended for use in pregnant women until 1976 and—unlike the case in the U.S.—continued to be used marginally until at least 1982. Our…

…for morbidity and mortality. Several lengthy and costly large-scale epidemiological studies failed to show the link. It was only the introduction of cholesterol-lowering drugs into research that managed to deliver…

…Revolution. As historian Martin Lynn explains in Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa, palm oil was used in the manufacture of Europe’s (and Britain’s) soap and candles, in textile…

…production; the second pertains to the status of borders within such an infrastructural vision of collectivity. Both taken together introduce a significant degree of unevenness into Europe’s spatial constitution. Highly…

…obstacle to the flow of information is increasingly the cause of suffering and loss of life. In Burkina Faso too, mHealth networks are multiplying. Most initiatives are aimed at making…

…not the kind of thing one said in email; one said it face to face. In the halcyon early days of the Internet, companies such as Microsoft got into trouble…

…for later retrieval. The system was intended to act as a practical tool to organize and archive family memories in a digital age. However, test users did not use the…

…continues to scan books from libraries, according to partner libraries, it stopped scanning in-copyright books back in 2011, limiting itself now to books in the public domain. This about-face returns…

…In Javiér Lezaun’s piece, “Iconoclasm in the Supermarket,” he explores how we label, or don’t, genetically engineered foods. And he shows how grassroots activists use do-it-yourself labeling initiatives as a…

…ten heavens home office life force The terms are indexical, in both the paratextual and linguistic sense: insofar as they fail to interrelate, they have to point elsewhere, to some…

…are asked to think forward into the future, to evaluate their lives in the round, to rank their anxiety against their contentment. Seen from another angle, however, simplicity is a…