Search Results for technological mediation

... distinctions. For Asian studies cases that feature unavoidable deliberations about trustworthy scientific knowledge, a science and technology studies (STS) lens can help contextualize technological mediation, methodologies involving nonadult humans who do not necessarily have authorial voices...

...Rosalind C. Morris This article examines the history of populist politics in Asia, and particularly in Thailand, in relation to two major developments: the rise of culturalism on the one hand, and the emergence of technologically mediated forms of protest politics on the other. Against a backdrop...

... located this essence of technology within the interstices of modern capitalist life—in mass-mediated subjectivity, in the sensations and forms of contemporary cinema, and in the “bodily technologies” of sports, for example. By examining Nakai's thoughts on the essence of technology, I wish to analyze...

... of Chicago. His work focuses on the human relationship with technology, paying particular attention to the body within structures of technological mediation. He is currently working on a book entitled “An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo’s Commuter Train...

..., industries, technological advancements, and overall material developments. On the other hand, the Korean press harshly criticized America for these same material developments, and America embodied much of Koreans’ critique and anxiety. Moreover, these conflicting discussions did not always line up...

... to recreate the heightened political sentiment of 1968 via protest scenes, Yasuko's body reorients the locus of politics back onto the horizon of technological image and mediated visuality. A brief sketch of the story: the first image of the film equates the spectator's eyes with the perspective...

... Fuller, 2005) points to: the perceived matching of life and technological mediation. If the overlap of the mediated and the everyday most noticeably intro- duces a new kind of temporal experience and a different sense of being in the world, that experience is negotiated as much through representations...

... conceived) of photography, which are made manifest in both vernacular understandings and specific practices, are inseparable from the technology’s mediation of social spaces and relations. Indeed, as Nicole Huang’s analy- sis of family...

... a mediating realm between text and context, society and technology, humans and nonhumans, imagination and reality; they balance the narratives of technological determination and discursive acculturation by introducing a more porous view between the two (Huhtamo 2011 ). In late-Qing China, the eyeball is one...

... an alienating experience and provocation for solitary reflection on the (un)happiness of life under capitalism into a medium of collective reflection. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 cell phone (keitai) neoliberalism technological mediation labor postwar Japan network labor...

... video technologies including “critter cams” can mediate connections and intimate knowledge, yet they cannot mediate the driving force for commercial volunteerism involving wildlife: the possibilities for direct bodily engagement and intimate...

... element within Chinese cinema since the late 1920s, Zhen Zhang ( 2005 ) succinctly mentions the application of earphones for interpreting use in some Shanghai theaters. Zhang propounds that “the literal translation by a disembodied and technologically mediated voice was, however, not quite the same...

... of intrauterine “life” — ­the “bloblike” pictures on sonogram screens that “expectant mothers emotion- ally bond with.” For Haraway, this technologically mediated experience demands a genealogy of visual realism in modern science, which she dates...

... of and to “primitivism” in capitalist culture is deeply implicated in the perceptual experience of modernity, which Benjamin similarly saw in modern mimetic technologies such as photography and film.12 A technologically mediated “nature” saturates...

... component of this alienation—technologies of gender, class, and race mediated by and as the image—means perhaps that a larger and larger community exists in this relation of alienated corporeality. If such is an image for and condition of the masses...

..., the telephone) is more easily told as a story of epistemic break with past modes of inscription and technologically mediated subjectivity: what Jonathan Sterne calls “impact narratives” (2003: 7).3 Shibu- kawa’s typewriter suggests that other kinds...

...Chung-kang Kim Abstract When Tongnip kinyŏmgwan 독립기념관 (the Independence Hall of Korea) opened in 1987 to commemorate independence from Japanese colonial rule, the sensational depiction of violence within its technologically innovative diorama display drew substantial public attention. These diorama...

... this distinction, arguing that liveness is not a state that exists outside mediation but is an actual product of this process: a media effect.11 Liveness is thus a discursive claim that relies on recording technology, while simultaneously seeking...

... the conceptual activity of others by virtue of their in- stitutional, biographical, or geographical credentials. To take one instance, a particular group of earlier viewers attempts to mediate between audiences in themetropolisesofEuro-America...

... an important materialist analysis of the gradual degeneration of intellec- tual generality in the era of monopoly capitalism, focusing on the histori- cal particularity of class composition and the role of technology in social life. More specifically...