• Ambiguity as a tool for both changing and stabilizing classification systems

    Last weekend, I attended a conference at Stanford University on “Uncertainty: Ambiguity and doubt in knowledge production”. At it, I presented a paper on how the Wassenaar Arrangement uses ambiguity…

  • Heading to Harvard

    Sam takes up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard, split between the Kennedy School’s STS Program and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

  • California trip

    I recently got back from a trip to California, where I met a few people at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Clara’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society, and gave a talk at the James Martin Center for…