…next pandemic before it starts” (see Lachenal forthcoming). Another is “syndromic disease surveillance,” which aims to detect signals of a new epidemic even before doctors have made any diagnoses, for…

…for both domestic and international regulatory authorities. In the international arena the gradual replacement of the Basel II regulatory requirements by a new Basel III system represents the leading edge…

…ratified Rio Convention. The range of the activities unleashed under this new form of surveillance is striking: Several thousand people attempt to relentlessly inventory all the animals and plants of…

…Birmingham and Crossrail (an underground line connecting Heathrow airport to the City financial district and the East End) (fig. 1); super-fast broadband to 95% of all UK premises; new hospitals…

…of statistics as a technique of government, the indicator constitutes a new mode of relating to the future. As the etymology suggests, the indicator points to a thing without explaining…

…journal Supermarket News explored the findings and recommendations of a recent study conducted by VideoMining, a shopper marketing “intelligence” firm (Alaimo 2013). Using cameras positioned on the ceilings of stores…

…wrenched from their historical eras and reassembled to form a new way of visual knowing. He called the resulting panels Mnemosyne Atlas, though the project remained unfinished at his death….

…cost-effective uplift in their national tally. Where the old behaviorism posited that individuals are known by their responses, the new science of happiness judges nations and continents on the basis…

…project was rooted in the politics of the neocolonial English New Town. When the villagers disapproved of their design, they vandalized the prototypes (Provoost 2017a), lashing out against the models….

…play of scales and silence allow objects to articulate a behavioral code that connects knowledge and social order. By contrast, in the second room, all sorts of opinions abound. Statements…

…‘hipster’ adverts on the streets of a techy part of London (BBC NewsBeat 2015). They have to do this because they know that their pay is very low compared to…

…by French librarians and slated for destruction. Public library space is often limited, and new books replace the old ones. Prévieux’s work is the result of a lengthy task of…

…still-frozen blood samples to yield new knowledge about future risk. A second group of essays explores public debates around the use of sentinel devices in health policy contexts. Didier Torny…

…specific cholesterol-lowering medication. From the Science News Letter, February 18th, 1961. This is a typical situation in contemporary affluent societies, faced by thousands of middle-aged and elderly persons every day….