Calculation and quantification have been critical features of modern societies, closely linked
to science, markets, and administration. In the past thirty years, the pace, purpose, and …

Standards and standardization aim to render the world equivalent across cultures, time, and
geography. Standards are ubiquitous but underappreciated tools for regulating and …

How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture.
Television, once a broadcast medium, now also travels through our telephone lines, fiber …

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive
pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In …

An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering
analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.“Big Data” is …

In the past decade, South Africa's" miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of
protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post …

summary Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and
Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to …

The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project—US oil
companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea—and a sweeping theorization of …

Platform organizations such as Uber, eBay and Airbnb represent a growing disruptive
phenomenon in contemporary capitalism, transforming economic organization, the nature of …

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