..., stereopticon displays, pageants, and songs—established the Institutes’ multimedia rhetorical strategies that conveyed their political and social program, and are important precursors to uplift films. While these materials were primarily targeted toward white philanthropists in the North, they also circulated...

... This chapter directs attention to the site of a redefinition of technologies of mediation that can be located at the 1970s World Expo in Osaka: the field of architecture. It sheds light on the “cybernetic turn” of Japanese architectural theory as a historical precursor to contemporary attempts...

... This chapter details the emergence of underground, the precursor to reggaetón, as a cultural practice of diaspora. It begins with a discussion of U.S. hip-hop, Jamaican dancehall, and Panamanian reggae en español that were key influences in underground’s sound and diasporic and racial politics...

...-friendly equipment, both professionals and family members began to bring cameras to the bedsides of the dying, who collaborated in recording their own deaths. Their documentaries—including the filmic precursor Dying ; Silverlake Life: The View from Here ; and Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan...

... of architecture. It sheds light on the “cybernetic turn” of Japanese architectural theory as a historical precursor to contemporary attempts to rethink media’s relationship to the environment. Focusing on the formative role of Tange Lab and the work of associated architects Tange Kenzo and Isozaki Arata...