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Published: 01 December 2012
... celluloid’s luminous transcriptions bring reality and viewer in touch with ethics. It shows that the digital technology’s relation to the world is founded on the viewer/user’s creative intervention or spectatorial activity. To expound on the ethical positioning of movies, the chapter explores what responses...
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Published: 01 December 2012
...addresses the questions of real time memory through the media technology of television, and the emergence of new kinds of dynamic archives as part of the post-broadcasting era Turbocharged media studies observes the effects of electronic mass media independently of the fixation on program content...
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Published: 01 December 2012
... as an actual media event. Cultural tradition, or the so-called collective memory, does not lead to a reconstruction of the actual sonic eventality; we have to switch our attention to the laws of technological media in order to be in a position to reenact past sound experience. A more plausible account has...
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Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio
Published: 07 October 2010
...This chapter argues that the Western dream of upward mobility has been destroyed because the scientific-technological revolution has fundamentally altered the forms of work, skill, and occupation. Today, knowledge rather than traditional skill is the main productive force. Knowledge becomes...
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Published: 01 October 2012
... consciousness chemical culpability genetics models napping sleep related eating disorder SRED addiction restless legs syndrome RLS fatal familial insomnia FFI Montagna Pasquale shift work sleep disorder SWSD Medical anthropology science and technology studies cultural studies American studies...
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Published: 01 October 2012
... Benjamin hegemony “Protestant ethic ” biopolitics habit flexibility individual intimacy napping work schedules night Medical anthropology science and technology studies cultural studies American studies Medicalization Biopolitics Desire Affect disability studies Children’s literature...
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Published: 01 October 2012
... science and technology studies cultural studies American studies Medicalization Biopolitics Desire Affect disability studies “Jump Happy” Chutist Takes Leap in Sleep Atlanta, May 12—First Lt. Gene Padgett of the 501st Parachute Battalion, Fort Benning, Ga., thinks he must have been “jump happy...
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Published: 01 October 2012
... Lunesta masses the narcolepsy Provigil Rozerem Z drugs capitalism hegemony caffeine colonialism disorder definition of genetics intimacy Medical anthropology science and technology studies cultural studies American studies Medicalization Biopolitics Desire Affect disability studies...
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Published: 01 October 2013
... Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT radar Shannon Claude Turing Alan EDVAC computer Pearl Harbor Japan attack on Pearl Harbor Kramer Alwin MacArthur General Douglas Marshall General George River Roosevelt Franklin D Communications Supplemental Activity–Washington CSAW Driscoll Agnes Meyer IBM...
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Published: 01 October 2013
... Charles Burroughs Corporation Harvard Mark I computer IBM 701 “Defense Calculator ” IBM 650 Poughkeepsie New York Remington Rand Univac River Roosevelt Franklin D stored program computer Madison Wisconsin Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota Watson Thomas J...
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Published: 01 October 2013
...‘High Technology Innovation’ presents and assesses a unique dataset on nearly 250 Minnesota computer companies (1980-2011), making unexpected connections between the computing and medical device industries. Cold War Control Data Corporation industrial district integrated anchor medical device...
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Published: 01 December 2012
... of technology apocalypse domination experimentalism scientific genetic determinism Haraway Donna writings of humans justice language overcoming power science social justice storytelling vision will being Heidegger Martin in dwelling logic materiality Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm nihilism...
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Published: 15 August 2017
...." avant garde modernism Bostrom Nick evolution evolutionary futurism futurism imagination Loy Mina modernism Nietzsche Friedrich Ouspensky P D body cognitive enhancement immortality JET Journal of Evolution & Technology Mill John Stewart overcoming the human radical human simulation...
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Published: 15 August 2017
... Leary Timothy More Max psychedelic rhetoric transhumanity World Transhumanist Association architecture art emotions humanity immortality reversible destiny self technological change biological evolution body capitalism death de Grey Aubrey hacking human landing sites life...
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Published: 15 August 2017
... Karl neoliberalism Plant Sadie acceleration climate change cyborg death Haraway Donna J knowledge technoscience Wark McKenzie alien Earth chaos FM 2030 futurism human evolution More Max optimism radical life extension technological change technopresent transformation abundance...
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Published: 01 September 2013
... and citizenship cultural studies ethics in research freedmen Cherokee and Seminole Harding Sandra historical narratives Native American and indigenous studies NAIS participant observation of genetic genealogist postings Rootsweb com study Genealogy DNA L Listserv online study science and technology...
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Published: 01 September 2013
... membership enrollment “genealogic tribalism ” nature culture binary Hawaiian blood quantum rule Kauanui J Kehaulani indigenous peoples Native Americans genetics and identity race and genetics genetic genealogy bioethics science and technology studies indigenous studies Blood metaphors have...
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Published: 01 September 2013
... tribal legal regime author’s perspectives as an anthropologist and Native American capitalism tribal cultural hybridity indigenous peoples Native Americans genetics and identity race and genetics genetic genealogy bioethics science and technology studies indigenous studies The gene is the unit...
Book
Published online: 24 August 2015
Published in print: 08 March 2011
..., this book outlines the history of communications technology as a process of increasing abstraction. The book charts how communication evolved from direct interaction with the world to mediation through various technologies. The invention of writing marked one significant shift; the invention of photography...
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Published: 15 March 2015
... Kang Touying moxing Zhang Huimin 1929 Wen Kang dispositifs Hongxia Wen Yimin 1929 Red Heroine The Wen Yimin 1929 Wen Yimin Shanghai cinema Affect Medium Intermediality Propaganda Spectatorship Chinese cinema Architecture wireless technology early television aesthetics Between 1927...