…By the end of the twentieth century, the focus group came very close to being a universal tool in America. Even in face of a generation of new attention-spangled, Twitter-spawned…

…produced in India by Whisper Design of New Delhi, coordinated by Sunita Chakravarty of the Regional Water and Sanitation Group in New Delhi in 1994. This copy owned by the…

…businesses more vulnerable to disruption. New infrastructures have extended the logic of systemic risk into new domains, as in the case of digital information infrastructure – analyzed here by Christopher…

…for when he helmed the country’s flagship general store near our family home on the salty, bustling peninsula of Conakry, Guinea. It was the 1930s, and rhum agricole, soap, tinned…

…hackerly and Open Source approach to biological construction [is] one that trades on the equation of DNA to source code and then posits that such code must be editable and…

…the threat of isolation: Welcome to New Orleans Within the past 21 days, have you traveled from Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea? Do you have flu-like symptoms and a fever?…

…has been awarding the “Design of the Year” for a decade now, celebrating examples that “promote or deliver change, enable access, extend design practice, or capture the spirit of the…

…email were newsworthy, and another batch of commentators assessing their geopolitical significance. Our Limn issue features pieces that in fact assess the importance of the DNC hack in quite distinct…

…leak—“Lonesome” Rhodes unwittingly insulting his public in A Face in the Crowd on a hot mic, or newspapers breaking the mistress story in Citizen Kane—but Podesta-size, Cablegate-size leaks (hundreds of…

In 2006, David Hackenberg, a commercial beekeeper in Pennsylvania, noticed what appeared to be a new disease in his honey bee hives. Bees are susceptible to a range of pests…

What is it about leaks that makes them different from other news events? If the statements of governments and media organizations are anything to go by, it’s file size that…

…all between 15 and 22 years old. Continuing the investigation through a case-control study, the Herbst team published its findings in the New England Journal of Medicine: This form of…

We live in a risk society. On a never-ending search-and-destroy mission to eliminate sources of potential harm, we constantly develop new systems to identify it and mitigate it. But do…

…new intervention into the existing archival evidence of the pandemic as a global event. This new arrangement queries photography as a transparent historical source. When we encounter images, we enter…

…in both a planned and technical sense. Staffers in the campaign’s New Media Division carefully set their goals, defined metrics for supporter involvement, and then measured their progress. Staffers honed…

…campaign, Clinton’s administration promised to inaugurate a new era for the White House. Technology would be centrally implicated in this new phase: the Clinton Administration would be the first to…

…makes explicit new potential for military, shipping and resource expansion. Planetary geopolitical ecology has become the subject of deliberate anticipation among the eight circumpolar countries. If one asks what the…

…one neighborhood, they would invariably generate new protests, new petitions, and new publics in another. These publics (like the ones that preceded them) would demand that it is the duty…

…brought you down. This was NOT the Linley (Chesty) I knew. Now I read your blogs and I can see the you I knew then. Lieutenant Corporal Vaughn’s reply to…

…the consumer’s gaze. Sustainability claims are made legible through percentages of reduction of used resources or produced waste involved in the development of new products, using prospective product life cycle…

…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…

…of IkoToilet’s model—pay-per-use public toilets—is by no means new. By turning the basic need into an experience of leisure and consumption, however, the IkoToilet aims to challenge the idea that…

…and mainstream news organizations subsequently reporting on the hack and commenting on the ensuing scandal.[4] The cache was the subject of an annotated, color-coded report published by the Lavoisier Group,…

…the turn of the twentieth century, numerous new food provisioning systems have mushroomed in various Western countries, including fair trade, organic co-ops, small-scale farming, grass-fed meat, direct selling, cow share…

…preserved foods and the technical means to carry them, their promoters more or less surreptitiously introduced important changes linked to the features of this new container.[1] A change over time…