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... between biometric technologies, bodies, and race. The term biometrics refers to technologies that scan subjects’ physiological or behavioral characteristics in order to verify or authenticate their identities. For those unfamiliar with the opera- tions of biometrics, let me offer a brief...

...Erica Hunt On Race and Innovation Dossier / Hunt 121 Erica Hunt Going Off Script scanning always scanning eyes filling in the missing words, the unsaid, the unmarked landscape scanning looking for the deep end uncharted dips, drop offs and broken walls...

...- stitutes the scanned image of that mimeo does not fade, or chip, or tear, no matter how many times it is read or reproduced (and indeed, each time the image is summoned by a Web browser to be read the file is copied and reassembled). On the other hand, the utility of a Web-based repository...

.... Once they had accumulated, we went as a family to a storefront shop and submitted our booklet. We scanned the catalog to find it: a leather briefcase with a gold lock. A woman in a pale blue nylon mid-calf­ dress went through a door to the back and got it. A replacement. It was lined...

... mingles are staged. A catalysis scaffold. The poem starts not from an empty page, but from a full one: the prompt- sheet, the source rattle, the extraction space. Its own small universe. Not read, literally, but eye-dance-scanned at random, seeking the leap- out. Words...

... (the subway, home office, bed, etc for how long, and how thoroughly or superficially (scanned, skimmed, read/underlined). Lin characterizes this work of tran- scription as “a stopwatch of various off-hand, inefficient, and fragmentary reading practices, really the dated, after-effects of reading...

... the way from social scanning and the medical gaze to the mechanical eye, The Magic Mountain emerges as an inquiry into the relativization of the epistemic mandates of human vision. Equally important, the narrative connects...

... imperfectly concealed the rot that had penetrated the flesh and begun to corrode the bone. But new teachers and periodicals were full of life. We read Joan Didion and Elizabeth Hardwick, Carl Schorske and Lawrence Stone in the New York Review of Books. We scanned the Village Voice and the weekly...

... for many years. Calasso seizes in this book the fundamental question of contemporary Islamic terrorism and articulates its deep truth in a few sentences: the vic- tims are the terrorists, not the dead. Calasso does not scan the psychic or social reasons of these young people, preferring instead to argue...

... mounted CRT projectors, designed to deliver raster scan camera imagery and calligraphic flight, weapon aiming and systems sym- bology directly into the right eye 6 Much military technology, in its relentless pursuit of speed from World War II on, seeks to minimize human error in any given weapons...

... into a mosaic. The tome houses a small library: aphorisms, fiction, dialogues and notes for dramatic works, theoretical prose, and interviews, as well as illustrations—scanned manuscript pages that leaven the book with a touch of the poet's hand. One gets the sense that Celan would not have wanted much...

... endless “Nothing” arrestingly in “Two Ways of Looking at an Ultrasound Scan,” as its first view of the scan skitters from the miracu- lous (“The Turin Shroud to the comic (“The Ghost Of All Our Christ- masses to Come / appears / live! Via satellite and finally settles, with the dust, on “nothing...

...) is a compilation, in its first part, of scans, labeled A through Z, of the many credit card and other solicitations the author received over a short period in 2007.47 The second part consists of increasingly strident demands for payment of his debts, labeled 1 through 10, that he received a few years later...

..., and an interruption, which lifts us up—is produced. This aftermath of the scan- dal is, in this case as well, a sort of collective levitation, but it only comes about through something like a work of mourning. This is why one can never say that the mystagogy that is at work during the opening of an art...

... and sometimes that reason is no reason. I feel so gay in a melancholy way. (Oscar Hammerstein II) sitting in the sun watching the pig-run neither/nor , no? “Truth only revealing itself in the form of error.” (Richard Foreman) & those that came to scan remained to sway...

... origins 7. American authorities take port security so seriously that in 2002, US Customs and Border Patrol launched the Container Security Initiative, which effectively extended the sovereignty of US border agents, allowing them to scan American- bound ships in dozens of partner ports around the world...

... by their very presence furtive spaces only they can navigate, gargoyles spend time in their own hideaways—imposed and invented—but also, and of critical salience, expertly scan assorted worldly domains. If in Burke gargoyle thinking is perspective by incongruity, a propensity to rethink and evaluate situations...

... of the essay. 1987 proved to be a bad year for the Constitution. The Irangate scan- dal exposed a tangled web of intrigues that stretched from Washing- ton to Nicaragua via the Middle East, with frequent side trips to Swiss banks, but there remained at its center a simple point...

... observer, he seems to allow the machine itself to scan each page and, as it were, consume the material for him. Or there is the person who sets her video recorder to capture multiple TV programs, likewise with the notion that she'll watch them in the future. To all appearances, though, it looks as if she...

...-based­ and scan- dalously low standard of [Russian] political culture, which is constantly and knowingly maintained by the state system and its accomplices.”20 Another member of this feminist collective, journalist Maria Alekhina, said in court, “Speaking about Putin, we mean not Vladimir Putin...