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  "Like holding the future in your hands": The Gadget at CES 2011

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  gwijthoff

  January 12, 2011

  don’t even know why they go anymore. “Gadgets and gimmicks did not begin as physical objects, nor are ...
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  How 'bout Them Apples? – A 19th Century Object Lesson for 21st Century Technology

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  David J. Gunkel Northern Illinois University

  January 14, 2011

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  precisely the issue that confronts us in the face of the technological object at the beginning of the 21 st ...   And these other things are, for better or worse, beginning to show signs of "a life of their ... orientations, we may begin to perceive other possibilities—possibilities that will undoubtedly have fundamental ...
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  Re: How 'bout Them Apples? – A 19th Century Object Lesson for 21st Century Technology

  Object Orientation

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  Friday, January 14, 2011 — 4:45 pm

  right?) but I'm currently toying with the idea of the "E-ject," at least as this discussion ...
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  Re: How 'bout Them Apples? – A 19th Century Object Lesson for 21st Century Technology

  things out of control

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  David J. Gunkel Northern Illinois University

  Friday, January 14, 2011 — 8:13 pm

  and the thing in itself ("Ding an sich").  This means that things have, since Kant at least ...
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  The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social Network"

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  January 17, 2011

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  The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social Network" women The Social Network race Productions of Digital Cultures Asian Curator's Note David Fincher's  The Social Network  (2010) tells ...
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  Producing "The Simpsons": Banksy’s Realism on the Factory Floor

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  Seth Perlow Georgetown University

  January 17, 2011

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  Producing "The Simpsons": Banksy’s Realism on the Factory Floor productions of digital culture production studies labor Korea factory Banksy animation Curator's Note Directed by graffiti mastermind Banksy, this introductory “couch gag” for ...
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  Re: The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social Network"

  senses of "exposure"

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  Seth Perlow Georgetown University

  Monday, January 17, 2011 — 2:48 pm

  you're beginning to unpack the ways in which the hyper-sexualization and erotic exoticization of Asian ... women in fact obscures their presence as raced subjects--one wants to say, raced laborers. At least in ...
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  Re: Producing "The Simpsons": Banksy’s Realism on the Factory Floor

  the animating hand, animated

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  Zac Zimmer Cornell University

  Tuesday, January 18, 2011 — 3:24 pm

  Great post! The most unsettling part, for me at least, is the sonic dissonance between the eerie, ... right back in front of the animated television within the frame of our laptop screen (for me, at least ...
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  Paying with Bagels: The Labor of Web Video Production

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  Aymar Jean Christian Northwestern University

  January 20, 2011

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  Paying with Bagels: The Labor of Web Video Production web youtube web series productions of digital culture labor independent film Curator's Note A “blockbuster web series” is, as yet, an oxymoron. Yet in a field replete with failures, Felicia Day’s ...
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  Sex, reproduction, the virtues of suffering

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  Seth Perlow Georgetown University

  Thursday, January 20, 2011 — 4:18 pm

  a shoe-string, it seems clear from this video that at least some of them find ways to positively value the ...

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