ISA conference notes repost (sigh)
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...
View ArticleInfrastructure and Disasters
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...
View ArticleClaus Rerup: Near Failures and Near Successes in the "Gray Zone"
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...
View ArticleInterrelating in extreme situations: the infrastructural angle
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...
View ArticleMaking good on disasters: Why did Google help Japan?
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...
View ArticleNew paper on crowdsourcing
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....
View ArticleBook Review Symposium – Philip Mirowski’s ‘Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to...
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...
View ArticleDoor to Hell, 42 Years Later
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...
View ArticleHappy Holidays! See you all next year
This has been an interesting year for all of us at installingorder.org. We had a number of good topics this year and we are very happy that the blog is now way more interactive than it was before. We...
View ArticleAbandoned Places
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...
View Article“Abandoned Cruise Ship Full of Starving Rats Headed For Land”
The Lyubov Orlova, a Soviet cruise ship, is packed-full of starving rats, who appear to be sailing for shore. A ghost ship filled with cannibal rats is floating somewhere off the coast of Scotland,...
View ArticleDisaster art?
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...
View ArticleDiagnosing Bridge Collapse
New York Times has a nice retrospective video on the “collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis in 2007 killed 13 people and focused attention on the state of bridges across the nation.” As a native...
View ArticleCritical Infrastructure and Climate Change
Sometimes things juxtapose themselves. Dmfant wrote a reply about a terrific piece now available on-line, free, as an mp3. Backdoor Broadcasting Company’s academic broadcasts currently host access to...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Gas Pipes
It seems that every time you turn around, especially with me living in Pennsylvania, I heard about our grand future with natural gas. USA TODAY heralds “U.S. forecasts natural gas boom through 2040” or...
View ArticleObama on infrastructure and business retention
President Obama links infrastructural improvements to business retention, specifically, that unless American start to improve the country’s infrastructure, which will require Congress to discontinue...
View ArticleShip Breaking in Bangladesh
Worth seeing: The Ship Breakers. Ships, at the ends of their lives, are rammed into the beach, thusly beaching these “end of life” ships onto the shores of ship-breaking yards of Bangladesh, India, and...
View Article3:1 — On “Decoloniality” (and the Nonhuman) — Post 3 of 3
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...
View Article3:1 — Post-Crisis — 0 of 3 (Introduction)
Are we, as a global community, living in a post-crisis world? We seem to be in a semi-permanent state of crisis, either in crisis or on the brink of it perpetually, and, in that context, does a concept...
View Article3:1 Post 2 of 3: Post-crisis and poetry
Dichotomies can be helpful, and Peter Bratsis in his 3:1 on Monday put forth a productive one: Should we think of crisis as a repetition or an exception? I want to take this and riff in a slightly...
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