With some success, I have been teaching Charles Perrow’s “Normal Accident” concept with “Engineering Disasters.” It is a show on the History Channel, which is itself an offshoot of Modern Marvels). Each show is broken-down into usually four or five vignettes … Continue reading
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Full details here What is the significance of ‘post’ in post-disaster, post-conflict and post-crisis, and how might we analyze the similarities in the governmental responses to economic, infrastructural and societal disruption? We contend that, despite…
I was in Anapolis, MD, last weekend and saw something that I thought was a bit odd (above): disaster art. At first, I was stunned; how could a place celebrate (but potentially profit) from local disasters? How would that appeal … Continue reading
A story in the New York Times today describes how Google is making headway among the Japanese. In Japan, Google does not have the vast market share that it does in the U.S. or other countries around the world. However, as the story’s title indicat… Continue reading
As I am generally interested in “technological” disasters and write for an infrastructure blog, I always wonder about infrastructural disasters. I recently read an interesting and somewhat non-tradition piece for an economics journal (although it … Continue reading
The notion of “post-crisis” that I opened-up this week with was meant to be a hard press against the post-crisis that I have often heard in discussions about “post-crisis economic planning” — that is, “after a crisis and now things are better” (which likely makes … Continue reading
This is the third post from the trenches of the Eastern Sociological Society’s conference in NYC this past weekend. The linked workshop entitled, “Decoloniality and the Social Sciences,” explored such diverse topics as floating medical clinics, non-GMO seed sharing, the … Continue reading
The time has come to talk of many things: Of Oysters–and Windfarms– Of hurricanes–and oil spills– And why politics needs these things– and whether bacteria eats oil In Making Things Public, Latour sets forth to “designate a risky … Continue reading
“Often referred to as the world’s most idyllic bomb site, the Marieta Islands were used as bomb practice by the Mexican government in the early 1900s. But after an uproar from the community, the government cease their bombing and declared … Continue reading
Abandoned places. Stunning visuals. I am of the mind that abandoned places have something, analytically, to contribute to infrastructure studies. Once you click the link, you’ll see that the producers of this compilation (not sure how many pictures are truly … Continue reading
Proverbial “Door to Hell”, Derweze, Turkmenistan: Check out a video here. The Door to Hell is a natural gas field in Derweze (also spelled Darvaza, meaning “gate”), Ahal Province, Turkmenistan. The Door to Hell is noted for its natural gas … Continue reading
Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Guest editor: Brett Christophers, Uppsala University Philip Mirowski’s Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste is an important and distinctive contribution to debates around the politics and economics of the economic crisis which began…
An interesting paper on crowdsourcing just came out in the “Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory” journal. “Maximizing benefits from crowdsourced data” by Geoffrey Barbier et al. explores how crowdsourcing can be used for purposes of c… Continue reading
Just like Nicholas I am very much interested in disasters, and his earlier post made me wonder some more about the connection to the issue of infrastructures. Some connections are obvious once you talk about technological disasters propers, especi… Continue reading
Claus Rerup is an associate professor of Organizational Behavior at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and …his work explores how coordination, politics, and heterogeneous information influence the ways in w… Continue reading
I am now reposting this after an unknown error occurred earlier today with the posterous template. So here we go again… I am taking a day off at International Studies Association Annual Convention in Montr??al today, looking forward to visit the … Continue reading
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