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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 65–91.
Published: 01 May 2016
... a return to its former unmediated status. By contrast, Her moves beyond the notion of prosthesis, bringing into focus human-machine intimacies wherein the human serves as host or a surrogate womb to the emerging technological object. In Her , technology is seen as an immaterial parasite while human...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 177–207.
Published: 01 May 2009
...
alike deem technology a characteristic of mankind, a prosthesis
that cannot be removed from the species.
In the field of media studies, Marshall McLuhan has also
championed the notion of technology as prosthesis. In his 1964
work Understanding Media: The Extension of Man, McLuhan framed...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 131–159.
Published: 01 May 2010
... scrutiny, though, it is not clear how Michel Foucault’s
architectural diagram of power maps onto present-day Internet
diagrams: are network users like Ringley visual or textual, pub-
lic or private, spectacular or social artifacts? Bringing theories of
subjectivity and media technologies to bear...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 108–132.
Published: 01 September 1991
... uses this complicated piece of equipment
to penetrate the surface of Leon’s photograph. As in the scenes in
which the Voigt-Kampff test is administered, a technological prosthesis
is ostensibly used to supplement the human eye-to see what he cannot.
However, the end...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 232–239.
Published: 01 May 1992
... photographs showing a range of results for
breast-sparing surgery and mastectomy. To explain-and to help re-
duce apprehension about the unfamiliar-we incorporated video se-
quences showing a breast cancer patient undergoing radiation therapy
and another woman using a breast prosthesis. The end...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 7–35.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., 2010). From Colour Separation (Mongrel, 1997).
Courtesy of the artist.
Introduction:
Race and/as Technology; or,
How to Do Things to Race
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
This special issue poses the questions: to what degree are race and
technology intertwined? Can race be considered...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 145–171.
Published: 01 September 2023
... or erotic experience of a couple using computers together. Although they amounted to a minor subset of the software introduced during the decade, these programs envisioned computing in the home as a technology to mediate companionate relationships. Romance software demonstrates that some software companies...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2007
... that blend what is possible
in the realm of imagination, computer graphics, and prosthesis
with what today’s scientists and engineers are capable of (or even
interested in) assembling in the lab. Unlike the diversity within and
debates surrounding those scientific practices, in film, the rules...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 115–143.
Published: 01 December 2022
... embodied but equally a technological fantasy, a media fantasy, that produces reality itself. Desire is also integral to these films in a more literal sense, for the simple fact that they are both narratively organized around romantic and sexual relationships. The disabled woman's forced exclusion from...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 88–107.
Published: 01 September 1991
... puts into question. The film posits
a world in which humans are indistinguishable from androids to the
90 naked “human” eye, in which the terms life and death are irrevocably
confounded, and where a visual technological apparatus, called the
“empathy test,” is used to determine who...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 206–237.
Published: 01 January 1992
... of the Aesthetic
Face (New York: Thieme-Stratton, 1984) 64 and 65.
On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and
the Technological Production of the Gendered
Body
Anne Balsamo
The Biotechnological Reproduction of Gender
Among the most intriguing new body...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 129–160.
Published: 01 May 1997
..., these engineers are kept
under close surveillance lest they spread their technology to Rome’s
enemies. If they are missing from Rome, a flying execution machine
follows them and beheads them. Despite the Roman king’s efforts,
news of his technology has spread to the East, and one young Burman...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 135–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Thomas Foster This essay analyzes a postcyberpunk science fiction story by Ted Chiang, an Asian American writer. The story speculates on the technological manipulation of visual perception through the direct modification of visual processing structures in the human brain. It focuses...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to war and technologies
of death, and, second, as a biopolitical dilemma, psychically dam-
aged and physically partial refugees, whose deviations from the
physiological norm bring them under medical surveillance in the
Camera Obscura 76, Volume 26, Number 1
doi 1 0 . 1 2 1 5 / 0 2 7 0 5 3 4...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 9–57.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Bodies in Shock: Gender, Genre, and the Cinema of Modernity . Pearl White
Technologies of Early Stardom
and the Extraordinary Body
Jennifer M. Bean
If everyone can agree that “why and how stars came into promi-
nence and what purposes they served for their audiences” is a
question...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 274–295.
Published: 01 September 1991
... and his brains spill out.
This horrific violence, which stops the gaze, stops it dead, produces
its effect only by means of the technology of verisimilitude; it must
look real. Such an overt commitment to special effects, staging violence
that is orchestrated as driving...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 155–186.
Published: 01 January 1996
... technologies of representation
do more than enhance vision. They embody forms of intelligibility.
The lorgnette, then, is more than a visual aid: it acts as a metaphoric
sign of a compensatory investment in seeing and believing-which, not
coincidentally, is a profoundly...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 103–133.
Published: 01 December 2006
... prosthesis of empirical vision. For Gilbreth, the actual or the
imagined camera served as a replacement of feminine affect with
rational subjectivity.6 Before proceeding to Gilbreth’s experiments
themselves, though, it may be worthwhile to detail the power of
the camera as both a real and an imagined...
