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differences (2021) 32 (3): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Tech increases social inequality, how algorithms are racist, and how math is a weapon. Do algorithms discriminate along gendered lines? Do mathematical systems harbor an essential bias? This essay shows that mathematics has long been defined through an elemental gendering, that within such typing...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 86–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the construction of the supersensual reality of the death drive in masochistic fantasy and in fetishistic disavowal, exploring their affinity not only with art and aesthetics but with mathematical and formal constructions. Both help to elucidate Freud’s early insight that the death drive is more mathematical than...
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differences (1992) 4 (2): 16–44.
Published: 01 July 1992
.... . “ Hunter Rouse, Hydraulician .” Garbrecht 315 - 27 . Kline Morris . Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty . New York : Oxford UP , 1980 . Laqueur Thomas . Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1990 . Latour Bruno . Science...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 109–131.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., to every woman five feet by one foot four, to every boy five feet by one foot two, and to every girl four feet six by one foot. They then stowed them [. . .]. Such was the picture, which the committee were obliged to draw, if they regarded mathematical accuracy, of the room allotted to the slaves...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 9–41.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Parallels? ” Evolution, Culture, and Behavior . Ed. Tonneau François Thompson Nicholas S. . New York : Kluwer , 2000 . 113 – 53 . Gardner Martin . The Colossal Book of Mathematics . New York : Norton , 2001 . Green Paul B. “ Expression of Pattern in Plants: Combining...
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differences (2007) 18 (1): 53–86.
Published: 01 May 2007
...). http://www.anistor.co.hol.gr/english/enback/e014.htm . Rotman, Brian. Ad Infinitum... The Ghost in Turing's Machine . Stanford, ca: Stanford up, 1993 . ____. Mathematics as Sign: Writing, Imagining, Counting . Stanford, ca: Stanford up, 2000 . ____. “Monobeing.” London Review of Books...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 107–131.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Weaver Warren . The Mathematical Theory of Communication . Champaign : U of Illinois P , 1971 . Tiqqun . “ L’Hypothèse cybernétique .” Tiqqun 2 ( 2001 ): 40 – 83 . Turing Alan . “ On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem. ” Proceedings of the London...
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differences (2007) 18 (1): 153–186.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... “Program Does Not Equal Program: Constraint Programming and Its Relationship to Mathematical Programming.” Interfaces 31.6 ( 2001 ): 29 -53. Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media . Cambridge, ma: mit p, 2001 . Marks, Laura. “How Electrons Remember.” Millennium Film Journal 34 (1999). 16 Aug...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 206–223.
Published: 01 December 2012
... multisensory dance, technological intimacies, re-
membering, figuring, embodied mathematics. I am struck by the intimacy
of feminist science studies’ engagement with science. Feminist science
studies distinguishes itself in two intra...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 74–111.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Worker 37.8 ( 1925 ): 1 . “ ‘Hearing Fingers’ May Soon Aid Deaf .” New York Times 29 Dec. 1949 : 3 . Heims Steve J. John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death . Cambridge, MA : MIT P , 1980 . “ Helen Keller .” Mind 2...
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differences (2007) 18 (1): 128–152.
Published: 01 May 2007
... . Rotman, Brian. Mathematics as Sign: Writing, Imagining, Counting . Stanford, ca: Stanford up, 2000 . Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics . Trans. Wade Baskin. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966 . Usai, Paolo Cherchi. The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital...
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differences (1998) 10 (2): 67–86.
Published: 01 July 1998
... area of interest (Hahn 10-12). In the regulations of 1699, a compromise emerged, but one weighted in favor of the second, more specialized alternative. Members were elected and apportioned among six topical divisions by specialty: anatomy, mathematics, chemistry, botany, and physics. The Academie...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 59–75.
Published: 01 December 2020
... “Before and After, Forever” [“Prima e dopo, per sempre”]). Tommaso, who thinks he therefore has “a debt to collect” ( un credito da riscuotere ), seeks protection from the ’ndrangheta that finances his advanced studies in mathematics. Eventually, he secretly works for the organization under the cover...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 193–207.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the metric—the ruler we use to measure distances—to how the metric changes throughout space-time, depending not only on the local structure of space-time but also its contents. It’s a mathematical feedback loop. Differential equations are often difficult or impossible to solve without simplifying...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 132–156.
Published: 01 September 2024
.../ . McKittrick Katherine . Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2006 . McKittrick Katherine . “ Mathematics Black Life .” Black Scholar 44 . 2 ( 2014 ): 16 – 28 . Morrison Toni . Playing in the Dark: Whiteness...
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differences (2003) 14 (2): 27–48.
Published: 01 September 2003
... to the work
of mathematicians a nd logicia ns t hat fueled his pr imary work on the
Universal Turing Machine. Publications in journals related to symbolic
logic and higher-order mathematics are to this day considered relevant...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 54–73.
Published: 01 December 2011
... to the true idea of art,” and “the true purpose of music”
was transcendent, greater than the sum of mechanical techniques (387).
Arguments in support of both sides were made and contested
through mathematical and experimental...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 240–248.
Published: 01 December 2011
... : Seuil , 1977 . Xenakis Iannis . “ Towards a Metamusic .” Trans. Hopkins G. W. . Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Music . Trans. Kanach Sharon . Hillsdale : Pendragon , 1992 . 180 – 200 . ———. “ Vers une métamusique .” La Nef 29 ( 1967 ): 117 – 40...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 1–8.
Published: 01 December 2012
... mathematical
theories; they do mathematics. Vicki Kirby concurs, suggesting that bacte-
ria perform the same code-breaking as cryptographers and hackers when
they develop antibiotic resistance. Depending on the metaphor, bacteria...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 1–4.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of the perversions not only with art and aesthetics but with mathematical and formal constructions. Steven Miller examines the drive that pushes the legendary high-wire walker Philippe Petit to dedicate years of his life to the seemingly impossible quest of traversing a wire suspended between the twin towers...
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