…it insufficient in one country made it extravagant in another. So although the Better Shelter tries to be better everywhere, it can never hope to adapt to the infinite complexity…

…the status of apocrypha, although it seems genuinely to have occurred, is of interest.[1] From testing kitchen products the device spread to the movie industry in the 1970s, and to…

…interesting in a way. I don’t fault them for trying to protect their identity. And that’s just how it is. And that’s not going to change anytime soon. Sometimes it…

…usage of it. Obviously, the CIA has been involved in influencing elections for a long time, and other intelligence agencies have as well. But it’s new to do it in…

…architecture. In any moment there can be two to five active IRC networks, each populated by dozens of channels where Anons interact, sometimes seriously, sometimes playfully. Sometimes it is impossible…

…(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…

…some point I could only look at the images with the categories in mind. The more I looked, the more I saw. These categories even transferred into real life; for…

…product. However, do they need to function? Can the representation be the goal in itself? The digital map of In the Air: it is a step in a collective research…

…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…

…pure political forms), and see instead the incredible productivity of his approach. By demonstrating that human democratic behavior can be successfully reproduced in experimental captivity – by showing, in fact,…

…litter in the main oceanic gyres. Interestingly, the production and circulation of these scientific representations markedly increased after Moore’s re-invention of plastic accumulation in oceans (Leichter, 2011). These scientific bricolages…

…in financial activity. Rather it is concerned with the catastrophic loss of functioning in the system of finance itself, thought to be triggered by an event occurring within a single…

…unidentified and unexplained at different times and in assorted places – in purchasing, in production, in paper-work processing-anywhere and everywhere in the business,” are in fact, “intimately interrelated, linked together…

…Background: The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) enacted into law in 2002 established a formula whereby the private insurance industry and the federal government would share insurable losses in the…

…etc. Such objects are far too large and complex for a guy in a tent in a village to inquire into. The other problem that “concept work” addresses is the…

…not the kind of thing one said in email; one said it face to face. In the halcyon early days of the Internet, companies such as Microsoft got into trouble…

…who touted the idea of inherited biological and intellectual human traits, became interested not only in averages, but also in differences – in the dispersion and distribution of said traits….

Mumbai’s public water network has long distributed water, difference, and inequality in the city. The city’s hydraulic infrastructure, incrementally extended in the last 150 years, is today the sixth largest…

…attempt to turn reflexivity into recursivity, to effect what cyberneticians call the ‘re-entry’ of one form into another, or to (re)incorporate ends in means, very nicely frames ‘prototyping’ as a…

…ideal” of reliable, low-cost, and universal government infrastructure provision in the public interest is being replaced by market infrastructure provision, with infrastructural goods allocated through the interplay of private interests….

…for workers, and a semi-public space in the city. With Brenda, I made models of the toilet structures for the “Excrementa Estates” installation. In turning DBPTs into models of a…

…political risks of nuclear energy and thereby turned energy infrastructures into a contested public problem. They also found ways to turn infrastructure into a terrain for political struggles in a…