…that transformations in the West African landscape (including deforestation and road building) have combined with increased human mobility and a chronic deficiency in public health infrastructure to make human-to-human transmission…

…it possible to sell and to buy energy “from any source…anywhere in the EU, regardless of national boundaries” (European Commission 2011:13). We are confronted with a form of infrastructural unity…

…cooks and children to burn risks. Some models are so complex that villagers cannot fix them without specialized tools, resources, and knowledge. Most are too expensive for villagers to buy;…

…get those eggs onto the behemoth’s shelves. Needless to say, it’s a lot. And, as the video goes on to explain, every year the company has to throw away 5…

…through state investment in infrastructure: infrastructure for all, in a sense, as in the story of the Keynesian public provisioning of erstwhile developmental states. The answer is infrastructure for some,…

…“Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct…

…factory brought industrial development to a nineteenth-century agrarian community, employment, local festivals with fireworks in the early twentieth century, and a rock festival today called Suikerrock (Sugar Rock). In 2002,…

…intimate collective that represents itself to itself constantly. In its ideal version, this happens completely without human control or intervention, making the local into a universal. In reality, such “automation”…

…such as cisterns, rain barrels, latrines, and muddy streets where the mosquitoes bred. The U.S. government built urban infrastructure in Panama not to promote modernization, per se, but to protect…

…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…

…intense fiscal austerity in which state-appointed emergency managers pushed Michigan’s most financially beleaguered cities to cut costs. In Flint, part of this push included a proposal to bypass Detroit’s Water…

…brought into being though efforts to care for and maintain water, and the enduring effects of water distribution infrastructures in the city (Marres 2012). Material Publics Historians describe infrastructures as…

…in seeing their area of specialization grow into a global concern. As central components of alert devices, the formulation and dissemination of denomination processes play a crucial role. In competing…

…famous for having produced such a demo. After a prolific career at the Psychology Institute in Berlin, he fled Germany in 1933 and, towards the end of the decade, settled…

…humans—not radiation—that influenced the abundance” of certain mammals. Like the pieces of a sliding puzzle, animals (and humans) abandon, move into, or reoccupy ecological niches. The end-configurations of these range…

…potential for major disaster (or systemic risk) in critical infrastructures by vastly increasing the possibility for local risks to mutate into systemic risks. In addition, the cyber-moment has elevated the…

…to be deciphered. The Priestess of Delphi, John Collier, 1891 Oil on Canvas. The Oracle In classical antiquity, divination took on two distinct forms: that which is inspired by gods…

…(435-mile) route was known as the Interoceanic Highway. Figure 1. The Inambari Bridge, where the Interoceanic Highway crosses the River Inambari. At that time, we were engaged in an ethnographic…

…with an avalanche always at hand—prompts us to see like computers do, but without their capacity for indexation. The formal approach I took on the university’s archive made it possible…

…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…

…aim. Hackers and hacktivists have become more involved in the communication field and more interested in “work traditionally ascribed to journalists, expanding what it means to be involved in the…

…formerly reserved for insiders. In the absence of a clear understanding of how leaks land in particular instances and what factors inform their reception, some have been tempted to see…

…Sometimes information technologies are invoked as a threat to older forms of collective life; other times, especially in response to inflated claims about the power of those technologies, they are…