... biological engineering mechanism tropes analogies and metaphors machine aesthetics molecular machines ...

... adaptations, they can also be deified as God’s clever creations. biological engineering mechanism tropes analogies and metaphors machine aesthetics molecular machines ...

... as nature’s evolutionary adaptations, they can also be deified as God’s clever creations. biological engineering mechanism tropes analogies and metaphors machine aesthetics molecular machines This chapter highlights a range of ways that molecular models are rendered in time-based media...

... sonically in real time in ways that suggest the presence of behavior, decision making, and personality was equally the creation of a new kind of cultural practice that required, and still requires, the articulation of an aesthetic capable of both describing and understanding the resultant machine-machine...

... of military drone footage in the Pentagon and Google's Project Maven initiative; the Triple Chaser activist aesthetic investigation by Forensic Architecture; and artistic attempts to bear witness to data centers, machine learning algorithms, and artificial intelligence. machinic affect artificial...

... of Georgia Cannery in Steveston, British Columbia, refabricated in Beijing, China) animates its contemporary significance. Examining how Ting’s sculpture recontextualizes the original machine, the epilogue reflects on the aesthetic and biological dimensions of capitalism that are tracked through the book...

... to the social. jazz Afro-modernism Mali social aesthetics improvisation Both revealing and correcting the history of interactive computer music, the author demonstrates how socio-musical networks that include machines as central actors create a virtual sociality that both challenges and sheds...

... that respond sonically in real time in ways that suggest the presence of behavior, decision making, and personality was equally the creation of a new kind of cultural practice that required, and still requires, the articulation of an aesthetic capable of both describing and understanding the resultant machine...

... in the direction of social life. In doing so, she engages with artificial-intelligence perspectives to elaborate an account of the relations between habit and intelligence that overcomes human-machine dualities. In probing the pathway metaphors that abound in Malabou's work, the chapter questions the authority she...

... How can we reinvent the teaching machine? Can we introduce disciplinary eros into our ways of teaching literature? What happens when transcultural envy is imported into the classroom? How does that change the desire lines, introduce a sense of loss and limit, create problems...

... protocols. It also examines two campaigns addressed to TSA employees. The first trains agents to be sensitive when performing physical pat-down inspections on those passengers unable to be screened by machine because of a disability or medical condition. The second teaches TSA employees how to provide...

...Teaching Literature How can we reinvent the teaching machine? Can we introduce disciplinary eros into our ways of teaching literature? What happens when transcultural envy is imported into the classroom? How does that change the desire lines, introduce a sense of loss and limit, create...

... creating new hierarchies and regimes of criminalization. Iterations of good porn are often based on aesthetic taste, concerned with respectability, and distance themselves from “mainstream porn.” The project of identifying good porn lends itself to diversity washing with a focus on visibility over...

... materialism the Real poststructuralism psychoanalysis In this chapter, Alfrey explores the central role that the aesthetic category of the sublime has played throughout Slavoj Žižek’s oeuvre—a role about which literary critics have had surprisingly little to say. As Alfrey explains, contrary...