…spirit is gone, we put the corpse out of sight to protect it from abuse. In like manner, when the writing is worn out, we hide the book to preserve…

…presentation and writing, and the ways that conferences structure and circulate expectations about what kind of work can and should be done there, as opposed to through another process. Download…

…protection of the economy as a route to protection of life is replaced with the protection of the economy as protection of life itself. Writing in 1966, Wildavsky offered a…

…other figures that can be used to envision the future: the prophet and the prognosticator. The prophet is a classical figure who interprets images of an impending future through practices…

…she shows how AMT both solves problems that require human labor—the kinds of things computers still can’t do—at the same time that it creates a new problem of management. Tarleton…

…story of major significance—that Bank of America had commissioned a group of private companies to disrupt WikiLeaks and its support base—but also formed the basis of Project PM, a crowdsourced…

…begged for mercy. What makes this system “inhuman,” given that there are few activities more human than staking an outcome on the turn of a card, and that every step…

…has produced strange effects. In the 1990s, William Bratton, then the Police Commissioner of the NYPD, drew from management books, especially Hammer and Champy (1993) and Osborne and Gaeblers (1992)…

…frontier from centers of expertise to the uncertain realm of the “community.” Community Care Units (CCUs) provide that extension. Drawing on a concept of “community care” originally developed within the…

…have its own website, the first to use email to communicate with the public. But though the White House didn’t start using the internet in earnest until 1992, White House…

…from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico by a single company based in Houston, Texas, with a benign-sounding name: Omega Protein. The company’s profits derive largely from a…

…Guinea and Liberia (including an large team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control [CDC] Epidemiological Intelligence Service). But, experts argued, the international response did not adequately escalate in proportion…

…civil disobedience as tactics (Coleman, 2017). Politicization has become more visible especially in regards to leaks in the service of civic and public goals and with media exposure as an…

…is taking place on private communication platforms like Twitter. These providers offer complex algorithms to manage, curate, and organize these massive networks. But there is a tension between what we…

…population, overcrowded cities, human intrusions into previously uninhabited areas, civil wars leading to crowded refugee camps, and commercial travel that could rapidly spread diseases around the world. Today, more than…

…Economic ideas were put at the service of making reality not merely represented it analytically. Michel Callon…proposed elucidating explicitly the performative character of economics; that is, he proposes considering economics…

…nation’s infrastructure is constantly in the process of development; its component parts therefore need to be projected or planned and financed. Investors need to be aware of the attractive investment…

…the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, which reports to the European Parliament, points at the predominant role of TSOs and project promoters and asks the Commission to ensure that…

The Prophet Prophecy is a classical form in Hebrew religions. Prophets have a vision of the future based on their intimate relationship with God. They are distinguished from other humans…

…all the problems and want to fix them; the managers think the problems are different or unimportant. Just to play devil’s advocate, is it possible that hackers, engineers, or infosec…

…manageable weekly installments over a year. Microfinance is an unusual kind of “device.” Most important, it’s a set of financial services, not a tangible product. But the microfinance narrative is…

…peril against which regulation was meant to protect producers and consumers, it is now seen as the safeguard of public good: the guarantee of efficiency and affordability for both producers…