... essential in England, France, and Germany's colonial governance, fingerprinting, photographs, criminal files, and other form of biometrics and information management were relied on heavily by the US police. These methods created “paper suspects” capable of being read and deciphered by police, even while...

... for this chapter. While these models decipher certain outcomes and can determine optimal modes of care, the unqualified promotion of metric quantification is obstructive to case-specific quality and the broader social context of health. Veterans Health Administration spinal cord injury randomized...

... Detective stories, science fiction, and the advocacy of social justice through revisionary mythopoeisis are different modes of exploring the anxieties and tensions embedded in future thinking, and of deciphering the strangeness of the present by plumbing the rationalities and the technologies...

... Cultural and aesthetic critique (under attack in a market-driven world) confront a secular age that has eroded beliefs in history’s happy endings guaranteed by revolution or religion that once grounded politically engaged criticism. Such criticism dedicated itself to deciphering the barbaric...

... along the way. The U.S. embassy in Lomé knows this gaming is going on and constructs ever more elaborate tests to attempt to decipher the authenticity of winners’ marriages and job profiles—and of their moral worth as citizens—tests that immediately circulate to those on the street. This chapter...

... study for this chapter. While these models decipher certain outcomes and can determine optimal modes of care, the unqualified promotion of metric quantification is obstructive to case-specific quality and the broader social context of health. Veterans Health Administration spinal cord injury...

... attack in a market-driven world) confront a secular age that has eroded beliefs in history’s happy endings guaranteed by revolution or religion that once grounded politically engaged criticism. Such criticism dedicated itself to deciphering the barbaric truths often concealed within bourgeois cultures...