Smoothly functioning infrastructures are “unnoticeable”; they attract attention upon a breakdown. When infrastructure does not function as intended, it stop working altogether. Rather, functions in unprecedented ways. This article argues that the process of malfunctioning, only facilitates engagement, but also produces an affect. ethnography shows how “broken road” ( razbitaia doroga ) rural po...

Pervasive computing requires infrastructures that adapt to changes in user behaviour while minimising user interactions. Policy-based approaches have been proposed as a means of providing adaptability but, at present, require policy goals and rules to be explicitly defined by users. This paper presents a novel, logic-based approach for automatically learning and updating models of users from th...

This paper explores the social and spatial implications of drinking water infrastructures in rural southern Bihar. Hardiya, a multi-caste multi-religion village, has complex arrangement. village consists original households, households resettled due to dam construction, excessive fluoride contamination groundwater. Excessive produces incidences fluorosis among historically, have low access clea...

In this paper, referring to the Model for General Knowledge Management within the Enterprise (MGKME), the author emphasizes two of the operating elements of this model, which are essential to insure the organizational learning process that leads to the appropriate use of concepts, methods, and tools of innovative technology: “Ad hoc Infrastructures” and “Organizational Learning Processes”. Nona...