Installing (Social) Order

Installing (Social) Order is a blog on the sociology of infrastructure, exploring the sociotechnical nerves of contemporary society.

Posted on 17 February 2019 by Nicholas

In 2015, Andy Borowitz wrote a piece for the New Yorker on the dismal state of American infrastructure in light of a mandate to build a “giant” wall.

dmf on 20 February 2019 at 22:10 said:

zombie statistics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswh1c

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dmf on 18 February 2019 at 21:03 said:

says a lot about our country (and its future) when we can’t even get real numbers for oversight and budget planning on such a major area of expenditures.
When we have conversations about planning futures for organizations in this kind of black-box environment what does it mean to make informed choices?

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Nicholas on 17 February 2019 at 20:38 said:

Just talking about what happens with spending budgets when defense spending is carefully monitored and, in some cases, nearly prohibited (e.g., Germany just after WWII), … leads to different outcomes, that’s for sure.

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Nicholas on 17 February 2019 at 20:36 said:

No doubt that military families must be protected. Greater oversight on defense spending makes a lot of sense too.

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dmf on 17 February 2019 at 20:18 said:

the jokes on us and the military families who won’t get their living conditions raised to safe and humane levels if Trump can steal the military construction budget (tho must be noted that the brass haven’t been spending this money to care for the families to date), if only there was some actual accounting of the defense budget available for democratic oversight…
https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagon-audit-budget-fraud/

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