http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/limn/rss Recent eScholarship items from limn Fri, 15 May 2026 14:42:15 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99p5d2f2 Lyle Fearnley explores how global preparedness for emerging diseases left some places unprepared. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99p5d2f2 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Fearnley, Lyle https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94c3k05b Nicholas B. King looks back at the dialectics of confidence and paranoia in the Ebola outbreaks of 1995 and 2014. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94c3k05b Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 King, Nicholas B https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8v8933vj What does experimentation look like in the time of emergency? Ann H. Kelly explores the design of clinical trials amidst the ebola crisis. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8v8933vj Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Kelly, Ann H https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ms2h5fg Alex Nading explains how brincidofovir's path to the front lines of the Ebola crisis underscores the contingent, speculative, “chimeric” nature of contemporary global health. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ms2h5fg Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Nading, Alex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p61461z Andrew Lakoff revisits the received wisdom that the WHO was slow to respond. Slow to respond to what exactly? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p61461z Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Lakoff, Andrew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73x377pj Frédéric Le Marcis and Vinh-Kim Nguyen document ebola's ecologies in photos. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73x377pj Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Le Marcis, Frédéric Le https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nh7q8t8 Joanna Radin explores the role of the “hot zone” in immobilizing people, blood and information. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nh7q8t8 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Radin, Joanna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6938b6m5 Where there is no kit and no infrastructure, there is vulnerability. Peter Redfield explores the role of medical humanitarian response in the Ebola crisis. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6938b6m5 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Redfield, Peter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r75n4r2 Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J. Collier and Christopher Kelty ask what the 2014 Ebola outbreak tells us about the history of pandemic preparedness and the blindspots of global health security today. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r75n4r2 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Lakoff, Andrew Collier, Stephen Kelty, Christopher M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/354792nf Global health is like the viruses it claims to be combatting; Theresa MacPhail explains how. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/354792nf Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 MacPhail, Theresa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2p1332dc The timeline of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, compiled by Andrew Lakoff. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2p1332dc Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Lakoff, Andrew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gg557n5 Guillaume Lachenal traces the urgent past of the current ebola outbreak, offering some surprising lessons about borders. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gg557n5 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Lachenal, Guillaume https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tp6h7kb Big companies are not just tracing their products’ life stories, but telling them too. Susanne Freidberg explores why. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tp6h7kb Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Freidberg, Susanne https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f2152z6 Mikko Jauho demonstrates how a 'double risk object' connects the worlds of food and health across different scales. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f2152z6 Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Jauho, Mikko https://escholarship.org/uc/item/90926742 Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier shows how French markets and social movements interact in food provisioning https://escholarship.org/uc/item/90926742 Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Dubuisson-Quellier, Sophie https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z9293pf What makes a claim believable? Bart Penders and Steven Flipse explore two cases of credibility engineering. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z9293pf Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Penders, Bart Flipse, Steven https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7b46m2k2 How do cheesemongers extend the value of a dying commodity? Heather Paxson explores how mongers care for living cheese—and for the craft of their trade. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7b46m2k2 Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Paxson, Heather https://escholarship.org/uc/item/78b0z9vb Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff introduce the concept of "systemic risk" and the focus of Limn Number 1. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/78b0z9vb Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Collier, Stephen J Lakoff, Andrew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7195c22t Is sugar a choice? Kim Hendrickx explores how a Sugar Museum in Belgium puts life and health into perspective. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7195c22t Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hendrickx, Kim https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6m81z6s2 Christopher Otter diagnoses the impossibility of fully governing large-scale food systems and the novel ecologies they create. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6m81z6s2 Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Otter, Christopher https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6km649jq What happens when activists re-label your food? Javier Lezaun explores the "Label it Yourself" movement and its ambivalent power. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6km649jq Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Lezaun, Javier https://escholarship.org/uc/item/51p4c398 As food has industrialized, it has changed, along with our bodies and our economies. Matthew Hockenberry charts conceptual connections in this issue with a timeline. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/51p4c398 Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hockenberry, Matthew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g67b0qx The labels on our food exist in a complex political struggle over consumers’ attention. Xaq Frohlich walks us through the information infrastructure of the label and its impact on our “choices.” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g67b0qx Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Frohlich, Xaq https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48q22431 David Schleifer and Alison Fairbrother introduce menhaden, the fish you've never heard of but are probably eating right now. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48q22431 Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Schleifer, David Fairbrother, Alison https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h91w16c Do you see the peculiar industrial legacy of West Africa's oil palm tree in a humble tin can? Makalé Faber-Cullen does. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h91w16c Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Cullen, Makalé Faber https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2j48b494 Food system activist Anna Lappé takes stock of the pieces in this issue. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2j48b494 Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Lappé, Anna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ms682fk The Editors of Issue #4 take a look at the concept of "food infrastructures." https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ms682fk Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Penders, Bart Schleifer, David Frohlich, Xaq Jauho, Mikko https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1086727m Anthropologist and retail consultant Michael Powell takes us on a stroll down Aisle #6. What's in the center of the grocery store and why is it causing a crisis in the industry? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1086727m Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Powell, Michael https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0d2067db Emily Yates-Doerr tells two stories that reveal the challenge of grasping global inequality. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0d2067db Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Yates-Doerr, Emily https://escholarship.org/uc/item/07d97338 How did the self-service economy emerge? Franck Cochoy displays the ‘pico-infrastructure’ behind modern consumption. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/07d97338 Fri, 6 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Cochoy, Franck https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9v88p8hz What kind of people will we become if we keep trying to archive everything? Geof Bowker reports from inside the Skinner Box. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9v88p8hz Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bowker, Geof https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tf7k22h What does a perfectly random archive look like? Finn Brunton explains. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tf7k22h Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Brunton, Finn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rz1g9sb Finn Brunton goes inside the Bitcoin blockchain to explore the weirdly meticulous collective archive, and how it might someday govern us. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rz1g9sb Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Brunton, Finn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92d9t07m Do you know how to read your electricity bill? Canay Özden-Schilling examines how new electricity experts—and new publics—are creating and contesting the price of U.S. household energy today. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92d9t07m Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Özden-Schilling, Canay https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qz5s67j How is modernity being reclaimed as a Chinese project? Jonathan Bach investigates the politics of infrastructure in today's most ambitious developmental state. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qz5s67j Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bach, Jonathan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qs4s3g4 What makes a city smart? Alan Wiig examines a project to promote urban development through information infrastructure in Philadelphia. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qs4s3g4 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Wiig, Alan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vn793r7 Aleph or Library? Work from the UA Artist Collective explores whether art can be an archive, or an archive art. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vn793r7 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 UA Artists Collective https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7t56m4cn Judith Kaplan explores the possibility of a new GOLD standard for archiving the world's endangered language data. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7t56m4cn Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Kaplan, Judith https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7q28h5vs What is the scope for local planning in large-scale infrastructure projects today? Stephen J. Collier, Savannah Cox, and Kevin Grove explore the multiple publics of flood control in New York City https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7q28h5vs Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Collier, Stephen J. Cox, Savannah Grove, Kevin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73h5p71m Vadig de Croehling, Director of Ideation, Process, and Interface at the Group for Research on Experimental Accumulation and Speculative Archives (REASArch), offers a sampling of elements from one of his organization’s most inscrutable archival projects. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73h5p71m Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 de Croehling, Vadig https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6f10791m Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer examine the politics of wind and power – in all their turbulence – in Oaxaca, Mexico https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6f10791m Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Howe, Cymene Boyer, Dominic https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cx4m7hp How does the Internet forget what it should not remember? Reuben Binns dives inside the rules for Biographies of Living Persons at Wikipedia and the right to be forgotten. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cx4m7hp Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Binns, Reuben https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69n718w3 Stephen J. Collier, James Christopher Mizes, and Antina von Schnitzler ask how infrastructures and their publics are taking shape today. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69n718w3 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Collier, Stephen J. Mizes, James Christopher Schnitzler, Antina von https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63b4d4hn Soe Lin Aung examines the Thilawa special economic zone to shed light on infrastructure’s changing publics in contemporary Myanmar. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63b4d4hn Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Aung, Soe Lin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61v6d0pb Branwyn Poleykett, Nicholas HA Evans and Lukas Engelmann are rethinking the role of the visual in the creation of a total archive of the Third Plague Pandemic. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61v6d0pb Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Evans, Nicholas H. A. Poleykett, Branwyn Engelmann, Lukas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5p55509v How can we work with vast digital collections? Artist Fabienne Hess explores the content and scale of an online image database https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5p55509v Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hess, Fabienne https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jj9f5f7 We know that environmental concerns have been used to block infrastructure projects. But can infrastructure be used to side-step environmental concerns? Andrew Lakoff on water provision and species protection in California. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jj9f5f7 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Lakoff, Andrew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5b17t3vj Why is lead-contaminated water a matter of public concern but contaminated housing is not? Catherine Fennell explores infrastructure and the politics of solidarity. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5b17t3vj Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Fennell, Catherine https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59b054p2 What does it take to flood a highway? Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox examine how old infrastructure projects—and old infrastructural publics—get submerged by new ones in Peru. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59b054p2 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Harvey, Penny Knox, Hannah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sr5x5pv Ashley Carse explores water distribution and its publics on the Isthmus of Panama https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sr5x5pv Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Carse, Ashley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g19m3bs Is your mobile phone company seeing like a state? Emma Park and Kevin P. Donovan explore telecommunications and contemporary nationalism in Kenya. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g19m3bs Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Park, Emma Donovan, Kevin P. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4cg312x9 Ben Outhwaite tells the stories of the people who immerse themselves in one of the most valuable total archives in existence—the Cairo Genizah. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4cg312x9 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Outhwaite, Ben https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4c14q292 Archives make the future. Editors Boris Jardine and Christopher Kelty explore how archives govern us. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4c14q292 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Kelty, Christopher M. Jardine, Boris https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b29w74m Boris Jardine tells the story of a little ladder intended to tell us what everyone wants. Where on the ladder are you? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b29w74m Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Jardine, Boris https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47v0g4hd The total archive is already here, Balázs Bodó finds it hidden in the shadows and run by pirates. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47v0g4hd Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bodó, Balázs https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44g6r235 Five year planning is dead. Long live the five year plan! Andrew Barry explores infrastructure's transparencies and opacities in the UK https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44g6r235 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Barry, Andrew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nc7w1cx Sven Opitz and Ute Tellmann explore energy infrastructure and the construction of a European commons. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nc7w1cx Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Opitz, Sven Tellmann, Ute https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mp8h6c9 Alan Lomax wanted to catalogue all human movement. Whitney Laemmli explores the high modern utopianism of the Choreometrics project. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mp8h6c9 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Laemmli, Whitney https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28w832q5 James Christopher Mizes examines how an emerging style of African infrastructure planning and finance is inflecting an old political collectivity with “new” values. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28w832q5 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Mizes, James Christopher https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zx4g6ww Leaders of the Human Genome Project promised a genomic total archive. Jenny Reardon argues that their quest inspired visions of freedom and imprisonment vital to understanding today’s ambivalences around open genomic data. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zx4g6ww Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Reardon, Jenny https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xp8b2hz Rebecca Lemov relates how the stories in the a “database of dreams” leak out of the edges, and sometimes overwhelm totality with particularity. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xp8b2hz Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Lemov, Rebecca https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tp4d32k Andreas Folkers recalls how nuclear energy created a powerful counter-public in Germany beginning in the 1970s, and assesses the contemporary politics of energy alternatives. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tp4d32k Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Folkers, Andreas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1pv291mm Google wanted to digitize all the world’s books but eventually abandoned that goal. Mary Murrell explores the rise and fall of one utopian library project and the emergence of new ones in its wake. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1pv291mm Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Murrell, Mary https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mv490rr Nikhil Anand explores why reforms to the Mumbai water system failed. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mv490rr Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Anand, Nikhil https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jp157xt How do you plan for the sudden onset of total war? Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff describe the construction of a vast collection of data about the vital, vulnerable systems of every nation in the world in the aftermath of World War II. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jp157xt Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Collier, Stephen J. Lakoff, Andrew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1bz6f9p5 Lawrence Cohen de-duplicates the complex story of India’s Biometric Archive(s). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1bz6f9p5 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Cohen, Lawrence https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10403060 What does Abu Dhabi's green future look like? Gökçe Günel explores Masdar City in a once-promising Personal Rapid Transit Pod. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10403060 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Günel, Gökçe https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0km652th Like a cartographic exercise, Julien Prévieux traces the outlines of a completely uchronic parallel future, not without wit. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0km652th Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Prévieux, Julien https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fr0m1j3 Jenny Bangham explains how the attempt to create a supply of all possible types of human blood gave rise to genetic diversity research in the 20th century. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fr0m1j3 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bangham, Jenny https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0783w596 Is an aquifer a tank or a sponge? Andrea Ballestero investigates how publics navigate the scientific indeterminacy of the underground in Costa Rica https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0783w596 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Ballestero, Andrea https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9mr6d864 Not all engineers create equally. Götz Bachmann takes us inside the labs of https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9mr6d864 Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bachmann, Götz https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ht4c54d Gabriella Coleman and Christopher Kelty guide readers through Limn Number 8 on Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ht4c54d Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Kelty, Christopher M. Coleman, E. Gabriella https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8d9883c0 OMG! Hackers take down energy grid! David Murakami Wood and Michael Carter calmly explain the how and why (or why not) of infrastructure hacking today. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8d9883c0 Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Wood, David Murakami Carter, Michael https://escholarship.org/uc/item/81p004n4 How are hacking and leaking related? Gabriella Coleman introduces us to the “public interest hack” and explains how it emerged. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/81p004n4 Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Coleman, E. Gabriella https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7751q4gd Sara Tocchetti explores the reusable pasts of hacking and the worn-out productions of biohackers. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7751q4gd Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Tocchetti, Sara https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6st3t77n Limn talks with security expert Mustafa Al-Bassam (a.k.a “tflow”) about the responsibility for information security, the incentive problems it creates and the available solutions. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6st3t77n Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xq0v7rb The term "hacker" is notoriously slippery. Paula Bialski dives into the practices and micropolitics of self-proclaimed non-hackers. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xq0v7rb Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bialski, Paula https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5q7691vc Defense lawyer Tor Ekeland gives us an up-close, first-person view of a widespread pathology: how misplaced fear and hysteria is driving an over-reaction to the positive work that hackers can do. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5q7691vc Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Ekeland, Tor https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58f5441v Are bureaucracies defensible? Nils Gilman, Jesse Goldhammer, and Steven Weber explore the Office of Personnel Management hack, and what it tells us about the inherent vulnerabilities of bureaucratic organizations in a digital age. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58f5441v Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Gilman, Nils https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5498p51h Philosopher-kings or Fawkes masks? Ashley Gorham explores the truth-telling zeal of WikiLeaks and the lulzy opinions of Anonymous. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5498p51h Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Gorham, Ashley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5300241s How did we get to state-sponsored hacking? Matt Jones traces the legal authorities and technical capacities that have transformed the power of the nation-state since the 1990s. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5300241s Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Jones, Matthew L. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50k7w92t What is the speed of hacking? Luca Follis and Adam Fish explore the temporality of hacking and leaking in the cases of Snowden, the DNC leaks and the Lauri Love case. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50k7w92t Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Follis, Luca Fish, Adam https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4m53t0pp Are leaks fast and slow? Does their “illicit aura” matter? Naomi Colvin dives into the debate about leaking and the politics of journalism today. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4m53t0pp Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Colvin, Naomi https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4214v2cc Finn Brunton explores the dream of the perfect leak, and what a science fiction story can tell us about the state of truth today. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4214v2cc Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Brunton, Finn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3n8393zk Cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter talks with Limn about infrastructure hacking, the DNC hacks, the work of reporting on hackers and much more. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3n8393zk Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jv2p09h A self-driving car is a computer you put your body in. Fiction by Cory Doctorow. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jv2p09h Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Doctorow, Cory https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bw683jr Joan Donovan dives into the dumpster of the Internet, and comes up holding some tasty ideas about what https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bw683jr Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Donovan, Joan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37w2c32p Limn tapped its extensive network of underground operatives to bring you this extraordinary list of facts about hacks, leaks, and breaches. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37w2c32p Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32v8c5k4 Should we have privacy for the weak and transparency for the powerful? Sarah Myers West reminds us that we've been agonizing over this question since at least the 1990s, when the cypherpunks first started discussing it. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32v8c5k4 Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 West, Sarah Myers https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2w5612p2 Journalist Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai talks with Limn about the details of the DNC hacks, making sense of leaks, and being a journalist working on hackers today. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2w5612p2 Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/25f643jt Security is no longer a privilege of the few, or a commodity in the hands of those few who can afford it. Claudio (“nex”) Guarnieri explains why civil society isn’t going to secure itself, and why it needs help from hackers. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/25f643jt Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Guarnieri, Claudio "nex" https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sz4f9gd Does the unfiltered, illicit status of a leak change the nature of information? Molly Sauter offers a consideration of the half-life of stolen data. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sz4f9gd Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Sauter, Molly https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s68x57c Can hackers be certified? Rebecca Slayton looks at efforts to blend, certify and market the subversive skills of hacking with the ethos of professionalism. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s68x57c Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Slayton, Rebecca https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r41t5cv What can you do with a Tor exploit? Renée Ridgway discusses an ethical dilemma for security researchers, a surreptitious game of federal investigators, and the state of online anonymity today. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r41t5cv Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Ridgway, Renée https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0gh405qc Philip Di Salvo explores the trading zone between journalism and hacking. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0gh405qc Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Di Salvo, Philip https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fk3m0g7 GhostSec engaged in vigilante counter-terrorism against ISIS. Robert Tynes explores whether this makes them part of the state, part of civil society, or part of empire. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fk3m0g7 Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Tynes, Robert https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vp4q15n Brenda Chalfin reflects on the use of design as a little development device. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vp4q15n Fri, 2 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Chalfin, Brenda https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9db2z216 Tatiana Thieme explores how doing your business has become an opportunity for business in Nairobi. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9db2z216 Fri, 2 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Thieme, Tatiana https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cx9m4rh Amy Moran-Thomas examines why diabetes patients worldwide still struggle to measure glucose. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cx9m4rh Fri, 2 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Moran-Thomas, Amy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8gz4r09m Tom Scott-Smith gets inside an award-winning shelter designed for refugees and asks: what makes it any better than a tent? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8gz4r09m Fri, 2 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Scott-Smith, Tom