Technologies of Trust

This thematic thread parses the qualities of trust and their modes of production, asking how material objects, bureaucratic and regulatory practices, as well as diverse kinds of technologies work to configure and condition trust.

Trust: A Pragmatics of Social Life?

September, 2022 / By Taylor C. Nelms

Trust exposes and discloses the social. But the heterogeneity and even excessiveness of meaning in the concept—its overdetermination, its multifariousness […]

Demonstrating Trust in Jordan

September, 2022 / By Kate McClellan

This essay considers the role of demonstration as a technique of trust at a wild animal sanctuary in Jordan. I