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...JAN MIESZKOWSKI Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2003 jan mieszkowski is Assistant Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College. He has recently completed a book on the models of productivity and praxis that arise at the intersection...

...Li Xiaojiang The change in women’s historical circumstances and social status has no direct connection with the development of social formations in classical Marxism. It is, however, intimately linked to human progress. Up to the present, social development has undergone five stages, yet the change...

..., Samuel. Mass Mediauras: Form, Technics,Media . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996 . athena athanasiou Technologies of Humanness, Aporias of Biopolitics, and the Cut Body of Humanity What is nazism...

..., however, it claims that this censored quest is not only unique to the individual analysand but something that articulates that subject to humanity as a whole. While Freud consistently underscores the fundamental solitude of the human being with respect to the free drive and the fantasies to which it gives...

... of the liberal representative state, the author argues that war is now a fully operational part of the organizational work that terms like community, culture , and humanity are now doing (and doing differently than before). War in the sense invoked here is activated at various levels of intensity and visibility...

...Adeline Koh This essay explores the “social contract” of the digital humanities community. I argue that the social contract of the digital humanities is composed of two rules: 1) the notion of niceness or civility ; and 2) the possession of technical knowledge , defined as knowledge of coding...

... is currently working on a manuscript on financialization, human rights, and the inhuman for Harvard University Press. Cassirer, Ernst. An Essay on Man . New Haven: Yale UP, 1944 . ____. Kant's Life and Thought . Trans. James Haden. New Haven: Yale UP, 1981 . Derrida, Jacques. “`Eating Well...

... at the University of Virginia. Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World . New York: Harper, 1998 . Adam, Alison. Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine . New York: Routledge, 1998 . Berlinski, David. The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300...

... these initiatives as “humane-itarian media interventions” that merge the rhetorical immediacy of humanitarian witnessing with the disciplinary logic of humane reform, the author argues that they recapture animals within anthropocentric regulatory coordinates of agency. To examine how contemporary “posthumanist...

...Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; Lisa Marie Rhody Situating digital humanities within larger changes to university funding and structures, Chun and Rhody complicate rhetoric surrounding “the digital” as the bright future of the humanities and higher education. Chun confronts a general euphoria surrounding...

... and knowing negotiation of institutional demands for impact, outcomes, results; and consider the possibilities for action within the institutions in which we, as scholars, users, and makers of technology, are embedded. The digital humanities should not, and cannot, bear the burden of transforming...

... and Technology behind the Human Genome Project . New York:Wiley, 1999 . Cavalli-Sforza, Luca. Letter to Robert Cook-Deegan . 22 Sept. 1989 . Cavalli-Sforza, Luca, Allan C. Wilson, Charles R. Cantor, Robert M. Cook-Deegan, and Mary-Claire King. “Call for a Worldwide Survey of Human Genetic Diversity...

.... Peggy Kamuf. Gates, “Race,” Writing, and Difference 329 -38. ____. “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences.” Writing and Difference . Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1978 . 278 -93. Fuss, Diana. Introduction. Human, All Too Human . Ed. Diana Fuss. New York...

... armstrong and warren montag The Future of the Human: An Introduction To pose the question of the future of the human is to open at least two distinct lines of inquiry. The first concerns the idea of the human itself, an idea...

...Brady Thomas Heiner Among the principal demands of contemporary political theory and practice is to determine habitable alternatives to (1) the violent and falsely two-sided dynamic of sovereignty and (2) the modern equation of the unitary, self-governing entity with the human itself. This essay...

... the politicization of death and a reckoning of the dying body, through what Achille Mbembe refers to as “necropolitics.” Drawing on the work of Mbembe, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and others, the authors contend that the limit of the human posed by the articulation of colonial frames within transnational ones...

...Rey Chow The question explored in this article pertains to the type of exchange specific to human relations we call forgiveness. Hannah Arendt's comments on the subject provide a compelling justification for its necessity: “Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done...

...Mark Garrett Cooper; John Marx The authors argue that contemporary discussions of crisis in the humanities are best understood as part of a longer genealogy of crises extending through the mid-twentieth century to the late nineteenth-century beginnings of the modern American research university...

...Patrick Jagoda This essay approaches games and gamification as a major problematic of the still emerging digital humanities. Games—through their mechanics, procedurality, navigable worlds, and multimedia interactions—call for new literacies that exceed traditional reading and writing skills...

...Matthew Kirschenbaum Taking as self-evident that the “dark side” under discussion is a discursive construct of the digital humanities rather than “actually existing projects” (a clarifying phrase taken from Rita Raley’s post- mla comments), this essay suggests that the construct is too often...