...Amelyn Ng Abstract This essay contemplates the media histories and politics of the digital twin: an accurate three-dimensional model designed to offer data-based simulation, predictive capability, and remote control over a material entity. Currently being developed across the spheres of industry...

... is not, in this framing, considered a right or a necessity, and the moral implications associated with transnational surrogacy are instead privileged. The fact that Volden, for instance, commissioned a poor Indian woman to be a surrogate and never went to India before her trip to “pick up” the twins positions her...

... which he appears. These twin movements form the focus of our argument. Consequently, we address the graphical and economic challenges of contemporary Internet language in two parts. Part 1 is a literature review and genealogy of the Internet’s distinct form of visual language, directing scholars...

... it scrappy, dirty, or noisy. In media, the word can be used in both digital and analog electronic media, and by extension to describe dust and scratches on a film, stains on a cinema screen, or an imperfection in a lens. Most writing on glitches comes from electronic engineers seeking ways to remedy them...

... by the digital media industries. It seeks to address a lacuna in mainstream Green politics, drawing on colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial analyses and indigenous methodologies, in order to propose a de-Westernizing move in ecopolitics. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 ecocriticism decolonizing...

... of previously classified national security documents, which initiated the digitization of tens of thousands of hours of historical film footage of atomic testing. Many previously publicly unknown details and images pertaining to the Cold War came to light. This material was then laboriously uploaded...

... are accelerating toward a new, different tomorrow. Glittering new digital tools are in our hands and the technologists have found the immutable laws that will drive us ever faster into the future. Moore's “Law,” for example, states that “every two years the number of transistors on the same size chip doubles...

... engagement in the contemporary technocultural milieu becomes more pronounced, with considerations of the current “crisis” in education, the “digital program industries,” the era of “real time” communications, and so forth. These are important and valuable engagements in debates on contemporary technoculture...

... of the Experimental College of the Twin Cities in 2007. We collaborated with a group of students at the nearby Macalester College who had established a chapter one year earlier, adopting the imaginal machine of the experimental college from students at Oberlin College. The Oberlin EC had existed since the late 1960s...

...: precisely their symmetry and twinness” (2003a: 42). The towers were an “emblem,” a “symbol of financial power,” they were “a symbol of omnipotence, by their absence they have become the symbol of the possible disappearance of that omnipotence …” (2003a: 47). But the originality of Baudrillard's fatal...

... methodological approach in this article to Virilio’s work, namely, the textual distinction between topographical and topological markers. Le futurisme de l’instant (2009) 6 is arguably one of Virilio’s most outspoken critiques of globalization, human displacement, and digital and technological “révolutions...

... and the last to understand the media – the grand paradox of youth, latterly on display in the “digital sublime” of technological determinism, but as always with the superadded valence of a future citizenship in peril ( Mosco 2004 : 80). Complex relations of commodification, governmentality...

.... While fear depoliticizes the society, subjecting it to an economic logic, the private sphere is politicized to the point that privacy becomes theft. Already in the 1980s Jean Baudrillard (1988 : 43) was asking, “Why does the World Trade Center [WTC] have two towers?” The twin towers of the WTC...

... an identifiable object” (2), we must ask how a people can demonstrate against an adversary that is unregulated, unlisted, virtual, secret, and operating in digital, immaterial space. The classic symbols of resistance—occupations, riots—seem antiquated in their attacks on material spaces that have less and less...

... stars). Like its zombie twin, the virus as an emergent disruptive agent exposed individuals and states who pretend to exercise sovereign control over the space and pace of the pandemic: as Dr. Anthony Fauci ( 2020a ) made clear, “You don't make the timeline, the virus does.” The global impact...

... : 11) put it, “One of the reasons for the current discursive power of branding lies precisely in its point of intersection between the twin interests of identity and commerce,” allowing brands to imbed themselves into “existing community self-perceptions to feel organic and spontaneous to those who...

.... The fantasies that currently coordinate the development of the digital technologies intrinsic to the MIME-net take two specific forms. The first is the doctrine of Full Spectrum Dominance (FSD), the desire to build a military panopticon able to see the global battlefield and arrest all enemy movement. In an age...

... ( Roberts 2014 : 423), conveniently omitting that they had suffered an even more crushing defeat at the hands of Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout a few miles away at Auerstedt. How thoroughly Prussia had been vanquished was best captured by Cornelia Vismann: between the twin battle of Jena/Auerstedt...

... ( Mandall 1990 ). Today, credit is essential for many types of transactions and the personal credit system has been fully digitized. The future orientation of the credit system has been given massive impetus throughout a century of systematically propagated overriding concerns. World War One, the great...