Material Epistemologies of the (Mobile) Telephone
This is a preprint of an article that appears in the Spring 2018 issue of Anthropological Quarterly, part of the special collection on Unseen Connections: The Materiality of Cell Phones. …
The Social Network of Stuff
This conversation with Matthew Hockenberry marks the beginning of a series of dialogues on the subject of logistics. No longer a mere subject of business management schools or an exclusive …
Commanding Supply
Supply & Command is a wrap. I wanted to make this post to thank all of the presenters and attendees for joining us to share their wonderful work, and for …
Supply & Command
Happy to announce a conference on supply chains and logistics we are organizing this Spring at NYU. Full details here.
The Making of “Made in.”
British Empire Marketing Board, 1927 [via]. Despite the sometimes underdetermined discourse surrounding it, there is nothing particularly new about the identification of a product with its place of production. One …
Shopping for the System
This is a draft of a talk I delivered at the Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Orders Conference on April 6-9, 2017 as part of our telephone panel, “Dial M …
