…differential risk of disease, it becomes possible to develop targeted interventions to reduce mortality rates. This actuarial logic serves to legitimate political decisions on risk, whether or not the potential…

…paralysing failure across the whole system. Whilst single markets or instututions may be exposed to systematic risk, this can be mitigated by diversifying into a portfolio so as to minimise…

…amateurs to organize the recruitment and training of walkers, to renounce previously widespread practices of free roaming and keen observation of their patches, to dedicate time to natural reserves, to…

…how the infrastructure they rely on is being maintained and improved” (IPA 2016a:24). This principle applies to a vast range of projects, including the high-speed rail line from London to…

…to reveal how the future is likely to unfold. According to Koselleck, modern secular temporality broke free of the apocalyptic future of Christianity in two movements. First, with the emergence…

…Thus it has taken a wonderful yearlong campaign by the Guardian newspaper to get the FBI to agree to put together some kind of centralized database of police killings in…

…of inanimate objects to animate, to act, to produce effects dramatic and subtle.” Thing-power does not necessarily rely on cultural significance but on the model’s material body. The common wisdom…

…Luis Borges’ Aleph – the object or “point in space” that opens out to reveal a whole universe – we can begin to see how a work of art can…

…are asked to think forward into the future, to evaluate their lives in the round, to rank their anxiety against their contentment. Seen from another angle, however, simplicity is a…

…Yet all proved too little, too late for the current outbreak. When the virus unexpectedly appeared in West Africa, humanity took a backseat to security. The breach in the larger…

…body, the exercise bicycles are part of the museum’s technique to put things in perspective and to show how one must judge properly. Is sugar bad for my health? It…

…the company to disclose to its customers when a breach occurs. That way, it makes more economic sense for a company to disclose breaches and also invest in security to…

…incorporate the tools of systems analysis as a field that is used to dealing with complexity. Ecologists should use computers to run simulations but also to process the increased number…

…to producer, from batch to batch, and from wheel to wheel. It takes skill not only to make such cheese, but also to sell it. Unlike traders of standardized commodities…