…response, evacuation, and the restoration of local services – was now obsolete. The prospect of a thermonuclear attack heralded destruction on a previously unimaginable scale. Many American cities would be…

…need for continually lower numbers means that these very numbers have become less meaty. On the one hand, not doing better than in the previous year means admitting failure. One…

…companies are handling, inter alia, road transport, shipping, and various goods processing services. Unsurprisingly, given Japan’s leading role in financing the Thilawa zone, the manufacturers now operating there are mainly…

…was crime and insecurity, the major social danger of his time. Contemporary societies produce more and more crime statistics, up to the point that they sometimes seem to appear in…

…(Macomber and Student 2007: 28). On the other hand, it allows casinos to flexibly react to unanticipated preference groups in real time, switching out game configurations (i.e theme, denomination, payout…

…large at the same time. Some kinds of “tools” are scalable in this sense (software and algorithms preeminent among them), and others, perhaps, are not (dams and bush pumps). The…

…Angela Merkel. While Rifkin might tend to overstate his influence, it is plausible to argue that even the Merkel administration took on—though in distorted ways—some of the ideas and motives…

…their security and breaches, customers can make better-informed decisions about which products and services to use, making it more likely for companies to invest in their security. One way this…

…the counter, escape the retailers’ mediation, and be handled directly by consumers. Well before the advent of supermarkets, cans thus heralded the shift from service to self-service arrangement, the rise…

…The temporality and volume of leaks influences their public reception, meaning, and impact. The primacy of these two factors displaces and distorts some of the categorical, normative, and political inventory…

…and standards; he ‘makes’ his City as the sculptor makes a statue” (1958:227).[1] While Plato idealizes the technocratic regime of Truth of the philosopher-kings, he identifies “mere opinion” with “disorder”…

…in TV and in film interviews. After a few months of doing this type of media-work—and it quickly came to feel like the drudgery associated with some forms of work…

A five-year plan for developing public infrastructure of a nation-state sounds like an anachronism of state socialism. Yet in 2016, the UK government, led by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron,…

…emissions and slow the growth of global warming, Mexico instituted some of the most aggressive climate change policies in the world. During his tenure, Calderón instituted legislation that made Mexico…

Consider the difference between catching a fish and buying fish fingers at your neighborhood supermarket. We may fail miserably at catching a fish, but we can easily imagine how to…

…Métropole and its colonies). Then, into those same hulls went Guinea’s bananas, rubber, leather, wood, pepper, ivory, coffee, gold, and the oily seeds of sesame, peanut, and palm (CFAO 1900:26)….

…to those “who study the survival and stability of ecosystems,” and particularly “the Canadian Ecologist Professor C.S. Holling.”[2] In this essay I explore the meaning and intellectual lineage of Holling’s…

…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…

…monitored to search for phreaks & fraud between 1964 and 1970: 33 million Number of calls recorded for the same purpose over the same time period: 1.5 million 16 Number…

…flu epidemic in the region, was finally taken seriously. This essay will reflect on what it means to name a city as a sentinel post, and in particular, on the…

…help another UC, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), through sharing their DNA and medical records (http://meforyou.org). UCSF launched the MeForYou.org social media campaign to “put a new thought…

…From the Journal of the American Medical Association, 1970. A key partner in the FDA’s efforts was the American Medical Association (AMA), which had long been concerned with medical quackery…