... for unique diseases and display interfaces. The variations among different corpora of contagion media point to the interplay among persistent, transhistorical tropes, particular sites of meaning production, and novel technical affordances. This article will examine a subset of these representational...

...R. Joshua Scannell scannellrj@newschool.edu The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being . By Ramon Amaro . Berlin : Sternberg Press . 2023 . 152 pp. Paper, $25.00 . The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics...

... is, in fact, a key episode in postwar American literature’s engagement with technics—with the relationships among humanity, technology, nature, and art. Here what Martin Heidegger might call a question concerning technology is posed about what it means to make a line in the dirt. Although I contend...

... . “Learning to Execute.” By Wojciech Zaremba and Ilya Sutskever . arXiv preprint. 2014 . https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4615 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This review looks at two technical papers from the field of computer science that, at the time of writing, should...

.... Press . Agre Philip E. 1997b . “ Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI .” In Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work: The Great Divide , edited by Bowker Geoffrey C. , Gasser Les , Star Susan Leigh , and Turner...

... of technical hacks can be read as playful or criminal depending on power dynamics (273); and Paul Edwards studies platforms, which he calls fast infrastructures , as he takes up exemplars from South Africa and Kenya to suggest that these fleeting operational levers represent the next model of corporate...

... such as network and information overload rework our understanding of the past. As these strange historical transfers suggest, the study of literary technologies demands more than dutiful technical histories and general philosophies of technological life. These books occupy an important, often overlooked middle...

... schools of thought. References Adam Alison . 1998 . Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine . New York : Routledge . Amaro Ramon . 2022 . The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being . Berlin : Sternberg Press . Amoore...

...) a positivist project” (12), one for which the harms of AI ultimately require technical solutions. It does so, they explain, by eliding AI’s own “sociotechnical genesis” (3), the dense mesh of decisions, practices, and technologies that entangle AI in social factors from the start. This elision makes...

.... From foundational developments in the emerging field of cybernetics, Chandler finds a conceptual basis for the new emphasis on “purposeful and purposeless behaviors in order to transform the definition of machines: rather than mere tools, technical systems, like organisms, can react in response...

... the same underlying technical substrate, but as a storytelling technology with no pretensions to scientific fidelity. In this section I argue that microworlds and IF represent two interpretive frameworks for making sense of the same fundamental technologies. Consequently, when contemporary researchers...

... of traditional Western technics. Karen Leong has argued, for example, that a distinct transformation in American ori- entalism during the 1930s produced “a romanticized, progressive, and highly gendered image of China” that allowed figures such as Pearl Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong to more...

... transfigured through technical virtuosity—the future respawned. (21) While to some extent a trite observation—that technologists and gamers, often the same people, imagine change in the world through both their technological conquests and narrative media—Milburn does an admirable job of highlighting...

... “parts and performances” rather than the “full[ness]” and “rich[ness]” of “life” itself. The technical mastery of a poetic debut was not solely a target for derision. It could also serve as evidence of “promise”—the character- istic critical term for the particular form of merit...

... associated with the digital humanities also calls attention to the contours of the texts under analysis, in fact employing a similarly enunciative mode. Furthermore, by virtue of their technical nature, they similarly highlight the position of the reader and his or her relation to the text...

... as “China vs. the West,” a binary complicated by Taiwan’s ambivalent relation to China, with which it has been technically at war for nearly seventy years, and the West, which supports the island’s political autonomy, while acknowledging mainland China’s claim to it as a breakaway province. Despite...

... a creative practice akin to experimental writing. For the purposes of word search, many of the same problems created by nonstandard spelling can also occur in experimental poetry and narrative, especially when the experimentation takes place at the level of the word. 21 Technically, ngram models can...

... suit, I approach Papers, Please not simply as representing the technical conditions of gamification at contemporary American border infrastructures, but instead as remediating the normative affective relations that traffic within gamification processes. By normative, I mean that the successful...

... is treated as a qualitatively more complex and potentially more effective subversive element. Although technically the servant of IPC, Paladin proves to be much more than a serviceable weapon. The robot’s quest for autonomy becomes entangled with the sexuality of his human partner, Eliasz, setting up complex...

... with Henry James and Virginia Woolf to explore the relation between mod- ernist fiction and twentieth-century politics. Beginning with an overview of ‘‘cosmopolitan communities Berman argues that the technical and episte- Tseng 2003.4.24 08...