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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
... de f’homme
Alien Intellect and the
Roboticization of the Scientist
Sarah L. Higley
Reproduction is diabolical in its very essence.
It makes something fundamental vacillate.
Jean Baudrillard, Simulations...
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In “O.B.I.T.,” a US Defense Department employee surveils the wife of a gove...
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in Watching Women: Surveillance and Spectatorship in Early Science Fiction Television
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. In “O.B.I.T.,” a US Defense Department employee surveils the wife of a government scientist through a mysterious alien technology designed to tear human society apart. “O.B.I.T.,” season 1, episode 7 of The Outer Limits , dir. Gerd Oswald, writ. Meyer Dolinski and Leslie Stevens, ABC
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Science Friction and Cultural Studies: Intellectuals, Interdisciplinarity, and the Profession of Truth
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 124–154.
Published: 01 January 1996
... scientists and humanists over
science studies take shape against a background of public perception
in which the contestants are hardly equal. On the one hand, audiences
sometimes still look to scientists engaged in arcane research for polit-
ical wisdom or cosmic insight, areas where humanists...
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Those Who Squat and Those Who Sit: The Iconography of Race in the 1895 Films of Félix-Louis Regnault
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 262–289.
Published: 01 January 1992
...,
is there as a comparative point of reference to what Regnault terms
the woman’s “savage” locomotion.2 He also acts as an in-frame sur-
rogate for the western male gaze of the scientist. There are also two
other performers visible at frame left, watching the Frenchman watch
the woman...
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On Film Studies and the Unconscious
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 39–67.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... Gordon
Douglas, US, we know that the obstacle of female sexuality —
always an issue in Hollywood lmmaking — manifests in Cold War
movies as the nuclear femme fatale of Kiss Me Deadly (dir. Robert
Aldrich, US, or the ubiquitous gure of the Headstrong
Lady Scientist. And of course...
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Gallo, Montagnier, and the Debate Over HIV: A Narrative Analysis
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 100–133.
Published: 01 January 1992
...
and standing outside of culture.
The production of research in the bench sciences has recently been
studied in narrative terms. Ludvik Fleck4 analyzed models of syphilis,
while social scientists Karin Knorr-Cetina,’ and Bruno Latour and
Steve Woolgar6 have spent extensive...
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Race as Technology
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 177–207.
Published: 01 May 2009
... peoples. What would such a
Race as Technology • 183
study change in the world? Ideally, ethically speaking, nothing. The
global mixing of populations and questions of genetic purity aside,
the artists, theorists, and scientists whose work I analyze here...
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Spaced Out: Remembering Christa McAuliffe
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 178–213.
Published: 01 May 1992
... that they not
serve to block women from being part of the world of “space” or
displace or perversely account for them once they are there. When I
say “women in space,” this is also meant to include more earthbound
versions like female scientists and engineers, at NASA and elsewhere,
as well as women like...
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The Politics of Breast Cancer
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 156–177.
Published: 01 January 1992
... participants in their own health, and in the AIDS activism
movement, feminist cancer groups are springing up around the coun-
try. They aim to provide direct services to women with cancer, to press
for more funding for research, and to propose radical perspectives on
how scientists (overwhelmingly male...
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Lasers for Ladies: Endo Discourse and the Inscriptions of Science
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 57–90.
Published: 01 May 1992
... the unruly body against the norms of the observing scientist.
Medical writing has clearly theorized endometriosis in terms of disor-
derly female biology, behavior, and personality, at times measuring
women’s reproductive physiology against a primate model. As Dr. Joe
Vincent...
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The Truth is Out There: Aliens and the Fugitivity of Postmodern Truth
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 42–74.
Published: 01 May 1997
... challenged the interpretations proffered by
military scientists. On behalf of the “people,” they challenged the
limits to and criteria for government secrecy.
From 1947, when the term “flying saucer” was coined in the first 49
of three widely publicized sighting waves that would...
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Watching Women: Surveillance and Spectatorship in Early Science Fiction Television
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 35–61.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 1. In “O.B.I.T.,” a US Defense Department employee surveils the wife of a government scientist through a mysterious alien technology designed to tear human society apart. “O.B.I.T.,” season 1, episode 7 of The Outer Limits , dir. Gerd Oswald, writ. Meyer Dolinski and Leslie Stevens, ABC...
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Index to camera obscura /40–41, 42 (volume 14)
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 163–164.
Published: 01 September 1999
...: Uncanny Aliens and Others (Pandora, or
Prometheus's Return). No. 40-41; pp. 245-274.
Higley, Sarah L.
Alien Intellect and the Roboticization of the Scientist. No. 40-41; pp.
131-162.
Markley, Robert
Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the Paranoid Structure of History.
No. 40-41...
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Technophalia
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 103–128.
Published: 01 May 1997
... corralled as independent judges of the value of Ham-
mond’s park. All three of these scientists have apparently suffered for
their somewhat renegade viewpoints. Though recognized as the lead-
ing authority on dinosaurs, Grant nonetheless is strapped for money
and is forced...
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Endangered Humans?: Wired Bodies and the Human Wilds in Carnosaur, Carnosaur 2 , and 12 Monkeys
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 226–242.
Published: 01 May 1997
... is a carnosaur, part
dinosaur, part human, genetically engineered by Dr. Jane Tiptree (Di-
anne Ladd). Tiptree, a scientist who had once “actively worked”
toward rendering the earth an “ugly cancerous, gray planet littered
with the dying remnants of biological life as we know it,” has realized...
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Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 275–276.
Published: 01 May 1997
... specialty in
film and television studies and science fiction. The article published in this
volume is part of a book she is writing on The Learned Man’s Android, about
the myth of the historical male scientist and his illicit reproductions. Higley (as
“Caves”) writes fiction, and is best known...
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Introduction
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 4–19.
Published: 01 January 1992
..., hence their data cannot easily be correlated). At the same
time, the plethora of features on scientific and medical imaging tech-
nologies in both specialized and lay media indicates that scientists,
physicians, and imaging technicians are not above deploying the med-
ical...
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An Editing Room of One's Own: Vidding as Women's Work
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 123–130.
Published: 01 September 2011
... figured in the text themselves.
Female media fans typically refuse simple identifications; they will
identify with the action hero’s geeky scientist buddy, rather than his
supermodel girlfriend, when these are the clichéd choices on offer.
There is also a powerful disincentive to identify...
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Ideal Hadaly
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 110–136.
Published: 01 December 1986
... God exists, Man speaks,
the scientist invents, the writer writes. So too, and in accordance with
a logic dear to the nineteenth century, it is to compete with God that
Villiers-Edison thinks of God as “the most probable of gods The
writer concealed within the scientist...
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Reformers and Spectators: The Film Education Movement in the Thirties
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 1990
... at the site of production in Hollywood. At the same time
as agitation for censorship was directed at the film industry however,
a number of other reform strategies, initiated largely by educators and
social scientists, sought to intervene directly at the level of reception.
What I will call the film...
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