Search Results for science and technology

...Josef Nguyen This analysis of Make , a US parenting magazine, focuses on how the periodical attempts to democratize science and technology through do-it-yourself (DIY) politics by rendering it a problem of child-rearing. Positioning the magazine within a broader context of contemporary interest...

...Eva Haifa Giraud; Sarah-Nicole Aghassi-Isfahani The emergence of so-called post-truth politics has seen popular calls to return to the “facts,” accompanied by frequent attacks on gender studies, postcolonial theory, and science and technology studies, all of which have been portrayed as somehow...

... on Art and Literature, 1966 to 2005 , 61 – 77 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Benthall Jonathan . 1972 . Science and Technology in Art Today . London : Thames and Hudson . Blakinger John H. 2016 . “ The Aesthetics of Collaboration: Complicity and Conversion at MIT’s...

...-ranging as those of military technology, aesthetics, philosophy, science, and psychology. These discourses tell the same story from different angles. The horizon has either already disappeared into the absolute distance or a spectral remnant of it remains as the target for an action that would reduce...

... within science and technology studies (STS). Hacking and making’s widely claimed salience to public policy, education, and social enterprise has, I argue, been enabled by a public imagination of hackers as ideal citizens. Hacking is viewed as leading to innovation, but this is a neoliberal imagination...

... once been intrigued by “invisibility” and its optical solutions in science, I was now confronted with the concept of “stealth,” smart weapons technologies and the uses of mediated imagery as further developed by the military. As before, I followed the images; they lead back to the cultures...

...; to be more precise, the belief that modern society can control the dangers that it produces is collapsing” (Beck 2009 : 8). Capitalist modernization involves a reflexive process, whereby state power, science, geopolitics, modes of rationality, and technological developments generate catastrophic risks...

... investigations with questions about how science and technology transform human beings. I have always worked in multiple media and combined representation with abstraction. Painting, however, has been at the center of my practice; I have developed hybrid processes that integrate subjective color choices...

... the figuration of the cyborg, Haraway (1985 , 1990 ) foregrounds a dialogue between science and technology studies, race theory, socialist feminist politics, and feminist neomaterialism. This high degree of theoretical hybridity is supported by notions of interrelationality, mobility, receptivity, and global...

... 1975), and digitized newspaper archives, blogs, science and technology studies writing on the chicken (e.g., Boyd 2001 ), and historical urban animal-keeping and housewife manuals, I began to build a genealogy of the chicken and its central place in the city not only in the form of food...

... William P. 2002 . “ Playing Hide-and-Seek with the ‘Trail’: Operation Commando Hunt, 1968–1972 .” Journal of Third World Studies 19 , no. 1 : 101 – 15 . Helmreich Stefan . 2019 . “ Reading a Wave Buoy .” Science, Technology, and Human Values 44 , no. 5 : 737 – 61 . Indochina...

... . Habermas J. ( 1989 ), The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Haraway D. ( 1985 ), “ A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980’s .” Socialist Review 80 (March–April) : 65 – 107 . Hardt M. ( 1998...

... other contemporary artists have explored the visual, technical, and conceptual potential of grafting organic material onto the body (and the arm in particular); perhaps most notably the Australian artist, Stelarc, who is well-known for his work that combines science, technology, biology, and art...

... by increasing the ratio of surplus to necessary labor – that is productivity increases lead not to more free time but to more surplus value, i.e. more profit. This produces a remarkable dialectic: as direct labor diminishes in significance compared to science, technological invention, and social combination, so...

..., labor, production, industrialism, enterprise, and the factory system. Yet Weber’s “spirit” was a general concept, envisioned to function as shorthand for the characteristic traits of modern capitalism, such as science, technology, control of industry, a free labor force, commercial activity, rational...

.... It wasn't a center per se, but I did get a chunk of money from UIC, and for a couple of years I had seminars around it. The idea was to bring together people on the campus who worked in science, technology, and medicine with people in the humanities. It's hard to do that because there's not enough mutual...

... 2001 . The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium . New York : Guilford . Brock David . 2004 . The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy . New York : Crown . Brock David Rabin-Havt Ari...

... College of the Union Institute and University, and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies for Goddard College, Gray's writings are currently influencing debates within cultural and technology, science, cyborg, and citizenship studies. At present, however, Gray's work centers on an examination...

..., an instrument that turns around against its own end and enslaves man. ( Simondon 1958: 101–2 ) I remind the reader here that “ethics, technology, and science” are, in his conception, merely dimensions or “phases,” as he puts it, of culture. What we have to understand, then, is that culture may suffer...

... scientific and technical work is made invisible by its own success. When a machine runs efficiently, when a matter of fact is settled, one need focus only on its inputs and outputs and not on its internal complexity. Thus, paradoxically, the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and obscure...