Category Archives: technology
Alison Landsberg – Prosthetic Memory
Alison Landsberg, Prosthetic Memory, Columbia UP, 2004. Are memories – whether they are personal or public – transferable, implantable, or purchasable? Landsberg argues that with the advent of new (mass) technologies like cinema memory can be massively distributed through the
Alison Landsberg – Prosthetic Memory
Alison Landsberg, Prosthetic Memory, Columbia UP, 2004. Are memories – whether they are personal or public – transferable, implantable, or purchasable? Landsberg argues that with the advent of new (mass) technologies like cinema memory can be massively distributed through the
Laura U. Marks – The Skin of the Film
Laura U. Marks, The Skin of the Film, Duke UP, 2000. If cinema is an audiovisual medium in nature, why does Laura Marks look for nonaudiovisual sense experience in cinema? Of course, the films and videos she tries to examine
Laura U. Marks – The Skin of the Film
Laura U. Marks, The Skin of the Film, Duke UP, 2000. If cinema is an audiovisual medium in nature, why does Laura Marks look for nonaudiovisual sense experience in cinema? Of course, the films and videos she tries to examine
Paul Feyerabend – Against Method
Paul Feyerabend. Against Method. 3rd Ed. Verso, 1993. This book is, as the title is saying plainly, challenging the idea that in science there is and has been a proper methodology for scientific research distinctive from non-science and pseudo-science. If
Paul Feyerabend – Against Method
Paul Feyerabend. Against Method. 3rd Ed. Verso, 1993. This book is, as the title is saying plainly, challenging the idea that in science there is and has been a proper methodology for scientific research distinctive from non-science and pseudo-science. If
Norbert Wiener – Cybernetics
Norbert Wiener. Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. 2nd Ed. The MIT Press, 1965. Cybernetics was the field of control and communication theory which laid groundwork for the computer culture now we live in. It
Norbert Wiener – Cybernetics
Norbert Wiener. Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. 2nd Ed. The MIT Press, 1965. Cybernetics was the field of control and communication theory which laid groundwork for the computer culture now we live in. It
Chris Hables Gray – Cyborg Citizen
Chris Hables Gray. Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age. Routledge, 2002. Curiously, all the theories of posthumanism have been disappeared, and discourses of the postmodern have receded like a popular fad. As if there is not any longer a
Chris Hables Gray – Cyborg Citizen
Chris Hables Gray. Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age. Routledge, 2002. Curiously, all the theories of posthumanism have been disappeared, and discourses of the postmodern have receded like a popular fad. As if there is not any longer a
Eugene Thacker – The Global Genome
Eugene Thacker. The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture. The MIT Press, 2005. Although the main object of Thacker’s The Global Genome is biology (and body itself), the context in which he deals with the object throughout the book is
Eugene Thacker – The Global Genome
Eugene Thacker. The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture. The MIT Press, 2005. Although the main object of Thacker’s The Global Genome is biology (and body itself), the context in which he deals with the object throughout the book is
Precarious Citizenship in the Late Capitalist Society
– Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl, Princeton UP, 2002. – Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, Duke UP, 1999. How do self and social identities change in a state of transition? How does the
Precarious Citizenship in the Late Capitalist Society
– Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl, Princeton UP, 2002. – Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, Duke UP, 1999. How do self and social identities change in a state of transition? How does the
