Issue 10 Chokepoints »Remittance Channels & Regulatory Chokepoints…place after the 2008 financial crisis. Specifically, regulations associated with Dodd-Frank require low-value transfers of more than $15 to comply with disclosure, consumer protection, and error-resolution rules requiring more steps…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »The Political Meaning of Hacktivism…with “passive material receptive to the impress of the Idea” (Wolin 2004:43). In the words of Hannah Arendt, “the philosopher-king applies the ideas [Forms] as the craftsman applies his rules…
Issue 4 Food Infrastructures »Scaling Up/Scaling Down…some of them expand or associate with others to deliver to larger groups of consumers. These increases in scale create debates within the AMAP communities. Within the fair trade world,…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »The Invisible ‘Jungle’ of Calais…to control—and render invisible—the persistent rush of humanity seeking illicit passage through the Chunnel. Since the 1990s, migrant communities gathered in and around Calais have been met with a steadily…
Issue 4 Food Infrastructures »Scale, Evolution and Emergence in Food Systems…historically novel “ecotechnical” systems. These systems in turn operate as new environments within which natural selection operates. Food systems thus demonstrate how differences in scale produce emergent phenomena. Canadian railway…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »Survival of the Cryptic…fall within the bounds of public records laws. But the leaks, hacks, and scandals that marred the 2016 presidential elections suggest the underlying debate over the function of secrecy within…