…in the agora?” (1981:336). Online members of Anonymous seem to have created an unembellished version of this ideal as their continuous conversations run the gamut from the not serious at…

…is the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration], and its recent rules around securing medical devices for manufacturers and vendors who create medical devices. It’s so remarkable to think that…

…total archives – beyond their own internal logic of completeness? Etymologically speaking, archives are related to government—the site of public records, the town hall, the records of the rulers (archons)….

…The word derives from the Greek πρωτότυπον (prototypon), “primitive form”, neutral of πρωτότυπος (prototypos), “original, primitive”, from πρῶτος (protos), “first” and τύπος (typos), “impression”.(Online Etymology Dictionary) Prototype as a re-presentation….

…fact some computers are capable of already. The Rijksmuseum allows users to search its online collections by color; so does the British Library. The latter even indexes triangles, curves, and…

…mode of governance, to those by which people are still elevated and ruined largely by chance: a chance skewed, rendered impure, by wealth and power. There’s a deeply seductive appeal…

…Ikea Website: 1998 Launch of the unofficial platform IkeaHackers.net: 2006 14 Year the first officially Ikea-approved hackable sofa bed will hit the market: 2018 15 Number of phone calls AT&T…

…rows of concrete structures partially assembled will remain that way. Still, the marketers have not yet walked away, and tall billboards throughout the city advertise the homes with images of…

…stem from the exposure of entire asset classes to “catastrophic” events – such as the exposure of mortgage-backed securities to downturn in the US housing market – and to financial…

…context of blood transfusion. The humble setting of Mourant’s clearing house belied its lofty ambitions. Announcing the new Centre, the U.S. magazine Science News-Letter claimed that blood-group data would offer…

…be turned into “development devices” amenable to abstraction and adaptation to other times and places? Could and should consumer and class-based desires be used to guide the making and marketing…

…risk-management systems make us safer? Or do they instead increase the very risks they are meant to eliminate? Questions about how Americans find, mitigate and create risks are apparent on…

…market. The five-year plan also tells us something else about infrastructure today. Infrastructures are not, if they ever were, merely reducible to clearly delineated objects such as pipes, wires, tunnels,…

…firm (The classic trigger in this model is a bank run.). The rise of global capital markets, however, complicates this picture. Within capital markets the number of actors at play…

…infertility – they or their “wild-type” counterparts raised under identical conditions have become unintentional models of the sedentary “ad libitum,” plastic-infused, nutritionally synthetic lives of contemporary North American human animals….

…uncertainty: “The virus writes the rules and this one, like all influenza viruses, can change the rules, without rhyme or reason, at any time.” Vigilant watchfulness would continue to be…

…Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsors conferences of its grantees in the academic community under the rubric of “Science and Technology for Intelligent Resilience” (link/). Resilience is a broad concept…

…in American Government Award from the Ford Foundation and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In the new protocols implemented under compstat, the precinct commanders gather…