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The Ghost in the Machine: The Biopolitics of Memory in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of neoliberalism demonstrates that embodiment in digital image networks emerges as a mode of intervention into the biopolitics of memory. Embodiment becomes the ghost in the machine of the film’s vision of neoliberal labor and memory markets. By focusing on the particular aesthetic means by which the film thinks...
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Epistemology of the Answering Machine: Cher, Chaz, Mourning, and Some Trans Archives
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2020
... “relegate the embodied voice to a service role of rendering audible the coherent thought.” Similarly, for trans-gender individuals undergoing vocal change, media technologies of vocality like the telephone and the answering machine—the subject of this article—do more than render subjects audible. Through...
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A Manifesto for the Broken Machine
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 171–179.
Published: 01 September 2020
... as broken machines. The piece offers a manifesto for the “Broken Machine,” revealing how power operates with a machinelike quality and can therefore offer feminism the possibility to refuse via the disruptive logics of broken technologies. © 2020 by Camera Obscura 2020 feminist technology gender...
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Wind Up: The Machine-Event of Tape
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 113–135.
Published: 01 May 2007
... Figures Theory.” Previous articles can be found in The Origins of Deconstruction (2006), as well as in parallax, Performance Research , and the Journal of Visual Culture .
Wind Up:
The Machine-Event of Tape
Lynn Turner
I’m sorry, so sorry.
Please accept my apology.
But love...
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Machinic Intimacies and Mechanical Brides: Collectivity between Prosthesis and Surrogacy in Jonathan Mostow's Surrogates and Spike Jonze's Her
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 65–91.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Alla Ivanchikova This article offers a reading of two recent feature films, Jonathan Mostow's Surrogates (US, 2009) and Spike Jonze's Her (US, 2013), as allegories of the tensions inherent in our collective relation with machines, examining the role technology plays in the constitution...
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Adam Harvey's “Anti-Drone” Wear in Three Sites of Opacity
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 175–185.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... The third site of opacity, which examines Harvey's “Anti-Drone” wear in light of “the fog of war,” invokes Noel Sharkey and Lucy Suchman's recent call to end the production of autonomous armed machines. Throughout these three sites of opacity, Harvey's work opens up a response to surveillance that inhabits...
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Yesterday’s Hadaly: On Voicing a Feminist Media Archaeology
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 105–137.
Published: 01 September 2018
... as cold, timeless bachelor-machine. It concludes by turning to the digital resurrection of Thomas Edison’s phonographic female dolls by a no less gendered technology, an optical scanning system named IRENE (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.). Tracking “female noise” from Homer’s Sirens to Edison’s...
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Beyoncé’s Soft Power: Poetics and Politics of an Afro-Diasporic Aesthetics
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the political power of these interventions, accusations were leveled at Beyoncé of cultural appropriation and exploitation of suffering by the neoliberal entertainment machine. By mentoring these artists, Beyoncé sought to convey the fertility of creative foment across borders and power hierarchies, even if her...
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Ethical Whiteness and the Death Drive: White Women as the New War Hero
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... domains of war and political machinations. While one film takes on a serious ethical polemic (the innocent lives of civilians caught in the visual crosshairs of drone cameras) and the latter is a romantic comedy following the adventures of a journalist in Afghanistan, both visually capture important...
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Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2022
... deemphasizing the Qajar's king Naser Al Din Shah's fascination with photography's technological newness and instead exposes what desires his fascination was tethered to. This piece brings into conversation techno-historical overlaps between carpet weaving, the Jacquard machine, and computational arts, opening...
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Interfaces of Identity: Oriental Traitors and Telematic Profiling in 24
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and racial identity in the television program 24 . Facial recognition systems (FRSs), in particular, participate in earlier visual discourses of privileged facial imaging such as the close-up and the mug shot, and link them with forms of machine envisioning such as automated rapid facial comparison...
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> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 9. Still from JR's Instagram video of the cardboard Varda's travels, showing a cardboard Varda cutout going through a TSA X-ray machine (JR, 2018)
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Continuum of the Human
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2007
... to the Terminator (from The Terminator,
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines).
RoboCop, from the movie with the same title, also carries a gun,
which, while holstered inside his right thigh, fails to be integrated
in any way into his arm; the same is true of the aptly named...
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Machinehead
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 96–123.
Published: 01 September 1999
.... This disavowal of
the machinic lasts, however, only as long as joker's next utterance,
which elaborates the kind of killers Marines are manufactured to be:
"The Marine Corps does not want robots. It wants killers. The Ma•
rine Corps wants to build indestructible men, men without fear."
Broken down...
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Bringing Up Babe
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 149–187.
Published: 01 May 2002
... practices as separate from Babe?
And what methodologies will address these concerns?
—Sylvia Kolbowski, “Questions for Feminism”
The 1995 film Babe (dir. Chris Noonan, US) culminates with the
consolidation of a community in which social boundaries separat-
ing animals, machines, and humans...
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Alien Intellect and the Roboticization of the Scientist
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 129–160.
Published: 01 May 1997
... , Michael , The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image-Making in Medieval Art (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989 ). Huyssen , Andreas , “The Vamp and the Machine: Technology and Sexuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis”, New German Critique 24 –5 ( 1981–1982 ): 221–237. Mazlish , Bruce , The Fourth...
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Time Travel, Primal Scene, and the Critical Dystopia
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 66–85.
Published: 01 December 1986
....) The Terminator is studded with everyday-
life detail, all organized by an idea of “tech noir.” Machines provide
the texture and substance of this film: cars, trucks, motorcycles, radios,
TVs, time clocks, phones, answering machines, beepers, hair dryers,
Sony Walkmen, automated...
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Ideal Hadaly
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 110–136.
Published: 01 December 1986
...Raymond Bellour © 1986 by Camera Obscura 1986 Edison’s phonographic talking doll (1890)
Ideal Hadaly
Raymortd Bellour
The New Eve, an electro-human machine
(almost an animal! . . . ), offering a replica...
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Kitchen Technologies: Promises and Alibis, 1944-1966
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 79–131.
Published: 01 September 2001
... manifestations. With their assemblages of designed machines
and utensils that interact with female bodies on a daily basis,
kitchens—futuristic or not—are thick with messages about the
cultural meanings of feminized domestic labor and about prevail-
ing understandings of the relationship between women...
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Notes on Digital Community and Revolution
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 99–131.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Minkin, detail of Yes to Life, 2013,
digital video. Courtesy of the artist
Notes on Digital Community
and Revolution
Seb Franklin
Let us redesign this “liberty machine” to be, not an entity
characterized by more or less constraint, but a dynamic
variable system that has liberty...
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