... capacity, collective asthmatic risk, and distributed body parts. Life in law is now monitored through air quality indexes and climatological reports as much as X-rays or electrocardiograms, making it something not just shaped by the environment but itself an environmental condition. Following judicial...

... of transformational possibility, detached from the networks, roles, and institutions of daily life. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 air quality monitoring co-creation liminality open source smart city politics Cans of Coke, bottles of beer, coffee cups, and empty pizza boxes are scattered...

... is imperiled by air pollution (Xu 2012 ). Third, reputedly to protect US citizens working in Beijing and their “dependents,” the US Embassy installed a rooftop PM2.5 monitor in 2008 and soon thereafter began tweeting out hourly air-quality-index levels, tweets that conveyed a far worse portrait of Beijing's...

...., for the National Air and Space Museum on 20 November 1972. This was only three months after the last American combat troops departed from Viet- nam, and the event occurred in the calm between President Richard Nixon’s Linebacker I bombing of North...

... this with the brilliantly constructed out-of-control quality of Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds radio drama. In the background of the newsroom is a large monitor tuned to Israeli TV; on the screen is a talking head instructing, alternately in Hebrew and Russian, how to put on a gas mask. Cut to close-up...

...-fired power plants and have emboldened the White House to enact the stricter air emissions standards that are slowly but steadily shuttering coal plants. Indeed, between 2007—just before the shale gas boom began—and 2012, the United States experienced a 12 percent reduction in CO 2 emissions ( Gold...

... the Crisis Management Program (CMP). The decade-long, multimillion-dollar effort merged social science and information technology to create “interactive, user-oriented, computer-based” systems that monitored international political and military events, provided probabilistic crisis forecasts, and helped...

... Sulawesi to be their tanah air , or “homeland,” but have migrated throughout archipelagic Southeast Asia and beyond over the course of several centuries. 1 More than a century ago, Bugis migrants from Sulawesi began traveling to Tawau, where, under the auspices of British colonial rule, they became...

... as they flow through persons over time and through different contexts. Environments transmit affective energy in interactions between materialities, earlier lived experiences, and inner worlds (see Navaro-Yashin 2012 ). Affect possesses qualities of matter and energy—as force with both material...

... become, rather, a technological experience, seen from satellites and endlessly monitored on television and the Internet. What was once the site of interest for farmers and fishermen has become the source of pleasure and obsessive viewing for urbanites and suburbanites...

... eventually, stiffen and lose their focus. The manager of any maquila faces the challenge of having to monitor this wasting process, which, again, according to the turnover narrative, is a culturally driven cycle whose deleterious effects...

... the wealthy suburbs of Aber- deen and Spur Road, jammed with the air- conditioned cocoons of white Toyota Land Cruisers ferrying the international nomads of the United Nations and the nongovern- mental...

.... The means of television censorship are quite direct. A panel of four people covers all programs, making daily visits to the television stations to check pro- grams before they are aired. The censors watch every scene and listen to every line...

..., with a slender microphone at its center and an American flag at its back. The air is silent and thick with the warmth of overcrowded bodies and the anticipation of long-held secrets. The assistant secretary of energy walks to a podium and holds a microphone before his burgundy tie and bearded lips. He tells...

... a “smoking gun” about shady ties between the Guinean government and Turkey's AKP government (Nordic Monitor 2019 ). Preemptive protests against labor practices feared to be impending with the Turkish takeover of the port of Conakry took place at the same time as millions of Guineans were watching the dizi...

... the government of acts with the govern- ment of beliefs.6 Nothing had more impact on cultural definitions of the person and citizenship than this growing sense that it was disloyal feelings rather than seditious acts that required direct state monitoring...

... space: the traffic and lighting systems, the visual displays and hidden monitors, the supply networks and design arrangements that arrange the space, regulate movement, monitor conduct, facilitate supply, and in general make up so much of the built environment. How these technologies affect...

... , Marilynne S. 1989 . “China's New Wave.” World Monitor , March , pp. 77 –80. Rayns , Tony . 1991 . “Breakthroughs and Setbacks: The Origins of the New Chinese Cinema.” Pages 104–13 in Perspectives on Chinese Cinema , Chris Berry, ed. London: British Film Institute. Su , Tong . 1990...

... native language, the police contractor motioned her into a nearby People's Convenience Police Station. On a monitor in the boxy gray building, she saw her face surrounded by a yellow square. On other screens she saw pedestrians walking down the street, their faces surrounded by green squares. Beside...

... of concrete is placed after another in line, there is a brief instant when the slab is no longer on the ground but has not yet been set in place. The sight of the concrete slab dangling in the air creates a strange moment of suspension, evoking newsreel flashes of historical moments in which effigies...