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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 99–131.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Sandberg's ongoing Lean In project to a longer genealogy of cybernetic imaginaries, capitalist economism, and governmentality, the author questions the assumptions and occlusions that result when sociality and digitality are conflated. Figure 1. Louisa Minkin, detail of Yes to Life, 2013,
digital video...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 39–75.
Published: 01 May 2020
... thresholds between body and mind, self and other, nature and culture. Copyright © 2020 Camera Obscura 2020 Nina Sobell biofeedback cybernetics feminist art nonverbal communication participatory art Figure 1. Nina Sobell, EEG: Video Telemetry Environment (also known as Brainwave Drawings, 1975...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 63–101.
Published: 01 December 2006
...
of the Instrumental
Laura Shackelford
This essay engages new media and the dynamic models that are
their trademark as a site for rethinking subjectivities and modes
of intersubjectivity. Since Donna Haraway first identified the
usefulness of cybernetic models to a feminist critique of Carte-
sian...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 65–97.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of the video through strategies of parody and hyperbole. At the same time Debbie controls the spectators of the video by challenging such parodies in the first place. Such feedback loops—familiar from second-order cybernetics—are hallmarks of control, wherein the observer of systems inevitably finds herself...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 135–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
... called “hard
character SF,” which, drawing on evolutionary psychology, sociobi-
ology, neurology, and cybernetics, takes a scientifically materialist
approach to the representation of psychological states and social
interactions.6 In that tradition, the story is unusual neither for its...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 177–207.
Published: 01 May 2009
... by which humans have extended their percep-
tion of the world. In the 1970s the cyberneticist Gregory Bateson
asked: is a blind man’s cane part of the man?24 What Bateson’s
question points to is a fundamental shift in Western conceptions
of autonomy: the human subject, in a cybernetic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 131–159.
Published: 01 May 2010
... technologies.
Ernst quotes Sven Spieker’s observation that the “unconscious . . .
must (also) be understood as a media theory whose centerpiece,
the ‘psychical apparatus,’ belongs in the same content as other
storage media, such as the camera (to which Freud often com-
pared the psyche) or cybernetics...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 92–115.
Published: 01 May 1996
... own vulnerability is at work in both these cases.
Along these lines, Speaking Parts exposes the futile attempt of recent
cybernetic environments to shun and erase the body as if its existential
and organic weight could simply be wished away. As Margaret Morse
observes in the context of "virtual...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 149–187.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of labor (as one among
many animal “resources”) in terms of a commodity in globalized
markets.
25. As I will show, the emphasis on communications in the new
system indicates the transition that Haraway describes between
“organic” and “cybernetic” divisions of labor, a shift...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 129–160.
Published: 01 May 1997
...
possible Asimov’s dream of a positronic brain,” as though the scien-
tist-cum-novelist (also Roddenberry’s friend) had gone down in his-
tory for his inventions in cybernetics. Asimov is of course better
known as a maker of fictional androids, and Soong is perhaps mod...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 161–179.
Published: 01 May 1997
... B. Jones, “Ter-
minating Femininity: Ideology and the Tminator Movies” and Dana
Heller, “Home Viewing: Terminator II and Cybernetic Family Romance,”
both in Proceedings of the Conferenceon Film and American Culture, ed.
Joel Schwartz (Williamsburg: Roy R. Charles Center...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 91–113.
Published: 01 May 2022
... through the bodies of perceiving subjects via vibration. 31 She describes “the disturbing spread of rhythm as a viral propagation infecting all biological, social or cybernetic bodies,” noting that we might find ourselves tapping our feet involuntarily, or that a song might get stuck in our head...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2016
...
for “Single Ladies” could not be more confounding. It features
Beyoncé and two other black female dancers tightly framed in a
white cube as they demonstrate remarkable — and synchronized —
physical prowess. Beyoncé is cybernetic, sporting a bionic-looking
left hand, presumably in place...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2013
... as an
analogy for human identity and individuality.
15. N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies
in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1999), 239.
16. Chun, Programmed Visions, 28.
17. Mary C. Boyce et al., Report...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 191–217.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics,
Literature, and Informatics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1999), for a useful critique of the assumption that the subject
could adopt any position and perspective through technological
means.
25. See Mulvey’s...
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 110–136.
Published: 01 December 1986
...
which his century could by and large accept. With the appearance of
“new images,” of the holograph, of cybernetics, and automation (not
to mention new theories in biology), an environment takes shape in
which the copy tends to rival the model-the theme has become com...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 176–205.
Published: 01 May 1990
..., and all the other modern 66p011utantsq’that so
threatened the middle-class order. While Haraway claims that taxi-
dermy is a thing of the past-supplanted by the new aims and goals
of cybernetics--I would argue that her analysis aptly applies to con-
temporary attempts...
