ResearchersHannah Landecker…taught and researched in the fields of history of science, anthropology and sociology. She is currently working on a book called American Metabolism which looks at transformations to the metabolic…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »On Reusable Pasts and Worn-out Futures…et al. 2015; Golinelli and Ruivenkamp 2015; Kera 2012, 2014; Landrain et al. 2013; Seifert 2015). I argue that the semiotic-material borrowings from computer hacking actually signals a broader phenomenon…
Issue 6 The Total Archive »Just What Are We Archiving?…entered the world of the Skinner Box when I read the chilling directive by Barack Obama on September 15, 2015: “Executive Order—Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American…
ResearchersXaq FrohlichXaq Frohlich is an Assistant Professor of History of Technology in the Department of History at Auburn University. His book, From Label to Table: Regulating Food in American in the…
ResearchersNick Seaver…who make technology deal with cultural materials. He is also the co-chair of the American Anthropological Association’s Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. His book project, Computing…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »Blockade: The Power of Interruption…simultaneous rural blockade on the Altiplano, opened the floodgates to hundreds of actions that followed. Rural and Urban Teachers’ Unions divide the work of blocking Heroínas Avenue near downtown Cochabamba…
ResearchersBrenda Chalfin…include Neoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2010), Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity (Routledge,…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Frozen By the Hot Zone…American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) annual meeting in New Orleans titled “From the Hot Zone: A Clinician’s Perspective on Confronting Ebola Virus in West Africa.” She had…
Issue 0 Prototyping Prototyping »Prototypes in Design: Materializing Futures…health and fitness prototype being designed to address the increasing prevalence of obesity in North American and Western Europe. Excerpt two is drawn from the conclusion of my thesis and…
ResearchersGeorge E. Marcus…ethnography that exceeds this orienting focus wants. In recent collaborations, I have pursued this interest in inquiries involving Portuguese nobles, European politicians, Latin american artists, U.S. bankers, and Brazilian intellectuals….