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... Chapter 5 focuses on Embodied Labs, an LA-headquartered start-up founded in 2016 that creates VR experiences for professional caregivers who work with elderly people and their families. These VR experiences are premised on the logic, critiqued in the previous chapter, that embodying another...

..., underscoring that being another can only ever be a façade and must be approached with caution. virtual reality Nonny de la Peña University of Southern California Sundance empathy machine Chapter 5 focuses on Embodied Labs, an LA-headquartered start-up founded in 2016 that creates VR experiences...

... Lecture 4, “Enlightenment(s),” starts with a “typical” presentation of the Enlightenment but then proposes two revisions: first, seeing the enlightenment as made up of multiple, fragmented, and even contradictory elements and enlightenments; and second, understanding the counter-enlightenments...

... dialog began to revolve around how television content, including news, could be made more responsive to public reaction and input by expanding the capacity of social media–enhanced television. At the same time, a galvanized independent news media sector emerged with several new start-ups interested...

... twelve hundred events, announced online by marketing start-up Black Book LA (BBLA), to sketch the dimensions of everyday dynamic forms of cultural gatherings constituting Blackness as distinctive temporal urbanisms in the metropolitan city-region of Los Angeles. The findings suggest that Black cultural...

... extinguishing or escaping from them. Three things are needed for a fire to begin: heat, fuel and oxygen. Lightning is a major source of wildfire starts, but some are started by humans, either by accident or intention. Fallen power lines started the 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise, California...

... Part I, “Starting Places,” explores the impact of social expectations and women's experiences in shaping them for leadership. Using reflections by both women and men, the chapters look at the roles of female Rwandans, traditionally, leading up to the 1994 genocide and immediately following...

... This chapter studies the relations between Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek starting from the notion of “antiphilosophy” proposed in the 1970s by Jacques Lacan and taken up by Badiou in a series of seminars in the 1990s. Žižek has been at pains to argue that Lacan is no less a philosopher...

... Horace's music swung hard; his music breathed; it always had life. The time signature didn't matter. If his music changed time signature or meter, it didn't matter. If it sped up, slowed down, or stopped and started, it didn't matter. If it was slow, medium or fast, it didn't matter. It always...

... In this story, a young woman, Clarice, has just started her job as a social worker, and meets a mother of four children who has been hiding her youngest from case workers. Clarice determines that the mother is owed arrears for the child’s upkeep but then ends up in trouble with her supervisor...

... It is not for nothing that simulation is the first term in Donna Haraway’s outline of informatics of domination. Now we are at the beginning of something new, at the start of an even deadlier game. If the threat of simulation was that it not only eclipsed the real but that it was also...

... The city’s dance scene continued to reinvent itself when John “Jellybean” Benitez left midtown discotheque Xenon to take up residency at the Funhouse, a struggling venue that attracted a suburban crowd. With Jellybean combining disco and funk classics with newer releases, the venue started...

... Starting with a discussion of Galileo and his experimental apparatus, this chapter addresses the singularity of theoretico-experimental science and the power that its practices articulate. It reconsiders the “epic” genre of narrative that the Galilean fable of origins has given rise to and its...

... events, announced online by marketing start-up Black Book LA (BBLA), to sketch the dimensions of everyday dynamic forms of cultural gatherings constituting Blackness as distinctive temporal urbanisms in the metropolitan city-region of Los Angeles. The findings suggest that Black cultural geographies...

... This chapter details how rebellion started in the countryside and quickly exploded all over Dominican territory. Opposition to the Spanish began almost immediately after occupation, but it became almost total combat by summer 1863. The widespread fear that reoccupation would bring reenslavement...

... This section explores white Western diagnosis, starting with the author’s experiences of being diagnosed with mental retardation in 1966 at Oregon’s Fairview Hospital and Training Center and a decade later with cerebral palsy. This story underlines the power of diagnosis, which can both provide...