A Vast Machine

Paul N Edwards

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to mode... Lees meer

Lifelines of Our Society

Dirk Van Laak

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives. Infrastructure is essential to definin... Lees meer

Subversion, Conversion, Development

• Hardcover | Engels | Infrastructures
• Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts. This book explores alternative cultural ... Lees meer

Underground

Blake Atwood

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• How Iranians forged a vibrant, informal video distribution infrastructure when their government banned all home video technology in 1983. In 1983, the... Lees meer

The Politics of Invisibility

Olga Kuchinskaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Infrastructures
• Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible. Before Fukushima, the most n... Lees meer

Standards

Lawrence Busch

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• An investigation into standards, the invisible infrastructures of our technical, moral, social, and physical worlds. Standards are the means by which ... Lees meer

Gaming the Metrics

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The traditional aca... Lees meer

Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 1

Ann M Pendleton-Jullian, John Seely Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures | nr. 1
• Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world. Design Unbound presents a new tool set for... Lees meer

System

Clifford Siskin

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• The role that "system" has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own "computational universe." A sys... Lees meer

Waste Is Information

Dietmar Offenhuber

• Hardcover | Engels | Infrastructures
• The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and partici... Lees meer

Repairing Infrastructures

Christopher R Henke, Benjamin Sims

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Inf... Lees meer

Downtime on the Microgrid

Malcolm McCullough

• Hardcover | Engels | Infrastructures
• Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local. Resilience now matters most, and most resilie... Lees meer

Spam

Finn Brunton

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself. The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a... Lees meer

America by the Numbers

Emmanuel Didier

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy. When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to a... Lees meer

Assembling Policy

Sebastián Ureta

• Hardcover | Engels | Infrastructures
• An examination of how human beings are brought into the planning of complex infrastructure projects, through analysis of a controversial public transp... Lees meer

Borders as Infrastructure

Huub Dijstelbloem

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• An investigation of borders as moving entities that influence our notions of territory, authority, sovereignty, and jurisdiction. In Borders as Infras... Lees meer

Knowledge Machines

Eric T Meyer, Ralph Schroeder

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to lite... Lees meer

The Infrastructural South

Jonathan Silver

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending fur... Lees meer

Urban Operating Systems

Andres Luque-Ayala, Simon Marvin

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• A new wave of enthusiasm for smart cities, urban data, and the Internet of Things has created the impression that computation can solve almost any urb... Lees meer

Digital Oil

Eric Monteiro

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• How is digitalization of the offshore oil industry fundamentally changing how we understand work and ways of knowing? Digitalization sits at the foref... Lees meer

Proxies

Dylan Mulvin

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• How those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included--and who is excluded--in the futur... Lees meer

Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 2

Ann M Pendleton-Jullian, John Seely Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures | nr. 2
• Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world. Design Unbound presents a new tool set for... Lees meer

Machineries of Oil

Katayoun Shafiee

• Hardcover | Engels | Infrastructures
• The emergence of the international oil corporation as a political actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP's infrastructure and information arrangem... Lees meer

Boundary Objects and Beyond

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues. Susan Leigh S... Lees meer