Issue 4 Food Infrastructures »Infrastructures of Credibility…EFSA generate credibility for scientists. Credibility for scientists, in this case, is only a means to build credibility with consumers, for they will have to make the purchase. However, mainstream…
Issue 9 Little Development Devices / Humanitarian Goods »Humility and Hubris in Hydropower…project site prevented them from doing so again. They had to formulate a new energy strategy. For more than two years, the Langtangpa relied on solar units for electricity (mostly…
ResearchersMichael Degani…devise informal economies of electricity distribution, and analyze their effects on the rhythms and textures of daily life. At Johns Hopkins, I teach the anthropologies of infrastructures, economic life, and…
Issue 2 Crowds and Clouds »Mapping the Social World: From Aggregates to IndividualsFor a long time, statistics has had a reputation for wiping out individuality, for describing aggregates only through sums and averages. However, in the 1960s, especially in France, techniques of…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Ebola, Running Ahead…pharmaceutical companies if the vaccines prove to have any dangerous side effects, and the United States has provided immunity against any legal claims (Federal Register 2014). Having shrunk the timeline…