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Crisis, Crisis, Crisis: Big Media and the Humanities Workforce
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 127–159.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... In contrast to critics who either worry that the humanities are newly threatened or hope they will be radically renewed by digital technology, the authors maintain that humanities research and teaching have long shared a mission with mass culture: namely, that of managing populations by controlling the media...
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The Woman on the Other Side of the Wall: Archiving the Otherwise in Postcolonial Digital Archives
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 146–171.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This article probes a set of problems in the theory and practice of the postcolonial archive that has emerged as the author and her Indigenous and non-Indigenous colleagues have struggled to create a new media archive in rural northwest Australia. This archive does not as yet...
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Hot and Cool Mothers
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 53–84.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Hannah Zeavin “Hot and Cool Mothers” moves toward a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” The article begins with an investigation into midcentury pediatric psychological studies on Bad Mothers and their impacts on their children. The most famous, if not persistent, of these diagnoses...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2 Runner’s World , August 1992. Reproduced with permission from Hearst Magazine Media.
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Headless Capitalism: Affect as Free-Market Episteme
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 62–100.
Published: 01 May 2012
...-regulated by homeostatic principle—that is, a harmonious and nonrational self-governance—and no longer by a thinking mind governed by reason in a vertical relationship with a subject-body. If the current cultural moment of global capital and media has been repeatedly characterized as “posttheory...
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Humane-Itarian Interventions
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differences (2013) 24 (1): 104–136.
Published: 01 May 2013
... 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...
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Designing for Difference
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 177–188.
Published: 01 May 2014
... contexts, a portioning off that also plays out in the increasing specialization of academic fields and even in the formation of many modes of identity politics. We need conceptual models for the digital humanities and for digital media studies that integrate theory and practice as well as technology...
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The Virtues of Critical Technical Practice
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 216–230.
Published: 01 May 2014
... for the consideration of sociotechnical problems, the argument is made that these resources might be productively placed in dialogue with existing digital methods and techniques through a reflection on media aesthetics. The article concludes by illustrating the relevance of this general framework with reference...
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Niceness, Building, and Opening the Genealogy of the Digital Humanities: Beyond the Social Contract of Humanities Computing
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 93–106.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... Humanities computing has historically differentiated itself from media and cultural studies, defining itself as a field that uses computational methods to address humanities research questions rather than exploring the impact of computation on culture and the humanities. I call for a movement that would go...
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On Our Last Leges
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 175–200.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., meaning here the changing media of legal transmission, the imaginal turn in the streamed and viral relays of law and its enforcement, confront a monochrome and linear textual tradition, the regimentations of the page, with the fragmentary and anarchic optics of online platforms and social media bytes...
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The Goddess in the Machine: The Radiophonics of Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
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differences (2025) 36 (1): 33–64.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Matthew Helm Through close listening to recordings in the Pacifica Radio Archives of Audre Lorde’s public radio broadcasts on wbai 99.5fm, this essay reevaluates Lorde’s characterization of media technologies as among the master’s tools and examines how she puts the radio to use in her activism...
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Published: 01 September 2020
Figure 2 Jerusalem light rail route bisecting the Green Line. Courtesy of Guardian News and Media Ltd.
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Scott Jurek (left) and Arnulfo Quimare Gutierrez (right) in the Copper Cany...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 May 2024
Figure 4 Scott Jurek (left) and Arnulfo Quimare Gutierrez (right) in the Copper Canyons. Photograph by Luis Escobar. Reproduced with permission from Hearst Magazine Media.
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Life after Debt
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 21–28.
Published: 01 December 2020
... on the collective reimagining of debt as a salvational technology, a feat accomplished by a complex network of media and financial elites. In this soteriology of Capital, debt is about the ever receding tomorrow and depends on on the eternal life of Capital and the promise that the day of reckoning can...
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Sex, Lies, and Paradise: The Assassins, Prester John, and the Fabulation of Civilizational Identities
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Geraldine Heng The Assassins of Alamut are presented in popular media and academic studies as the eleventh-century forerunners of today’s “suicide terrorists,” thus producing a genealogy of spectacular Middle Eastern suicide-homicides that stretches back some nine hundred years. “Sex, Lies...
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The Poetics of Signal Processing
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 31–53.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Jonathan Sterne; Tara Rodgers Signal processing is one of the most important and understudied dimensions of contemporary sound cultures and of electronic media more broadly. In the sonic register, it inflects everything from music production, wired or wireless transmission, and radio broadcast...
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Digital Humanities for the Next Five Minutes
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 26–45.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... This essay contends that a tactical media-informed approach to the field would be open to a range of methods and research questions, that such an approach could insist upon collaborative experimentation and the sharing of knowledge; exploit the ephemerality of technology-based fields; inspire a more playful...
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Speaking of Noise: From Murderous Loudness to the Crackle of Silk
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 249–275.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and the practice of noise since this moment. In the first part, the focus is on Michel Chion’s writings that deal with noise—both conceptually and linguistically—across a variety of media (including theater, film, and music). Chion’s work is exemplary of a movement away from noise as paradigm-shifting...
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Kantian Mouthliness: Enlightenment, Address, Aesthetics
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 29–60.
Published: 01 September 2015
... direct as men of learning to the reading public. If left free, this address, argues Kant, enables us to become mündig (mature) or, in other words, to learn to think and act for ourselves. Kant’s vision invokes the mouth ( Mund ) along with other bodily media of address (reading, writing). Presenting...
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Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2015
... female. The essay argues that rather than call for bubbles of privacy that seal off online subjects, as if to prevent their leaking or sluttiness, the inherent promiscuity of new media must be embraced. © 2015 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2015 leak...
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