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The Ambient Politics of Affective Computing

Angela Xiao Wu
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 21–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435427
Published: 01 January 2022
...Angela Xiao Wu Abstract Much attention to affective computing has focused on its alleged ability to “tap into human affects,” a trope also foundational to broader theorizations about big‐data surveillance. What remains understudied and undertheorized is affective computing's social life, where...
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The Contest between Information and Uncertainty: The Cold War Origins of Computational Policy Knowledge

Joy Rohde
Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 405–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10742579
Published: 01 September 2023
... and government officials turned to digital computing to help make decisions under the unavoidable pressures of geopolitical uncertainty. By the 1970s, their data banks of political knowledge and novel statistical tools purported to forecast political unrest long before an unaided human could. These efforts...
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Lovers , by Teiji Furuhashi, 1994. Computer-controlled, five-channel laser ...

in The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Fragility > Public Culture
Published: 01 January 2020
Figure 1 Lovers , by Teiji Furuhashi, 1994. Computer-controlled, five-channel laser disc/sound installation with five projectors, two sound systems, two slide projectors, and slides (color, sound). More
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Cities of Data: Examining the New Urban Science

Anthony Townsend
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 201–212.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841808
Published: 01 May 2015
... design and policy. While these efforts have long been stymied by a lack of sufficiently detailed data and limited computing power, these obstacles are rapidly being overcome. In response, a growing number of city governments and a new cadre of academic research centers are investing in data-intensive...
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Object Lessons for the Media Home: From Storagewall to Invisible Design

Lynn Spigel
Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 535–576.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1630681
Published: 01 September 2012
...Lynn Spigel This essay explores the history of George Nelson’s Storagewall in relation to a genealogy of invisible design, up through the computer. It explores the way the Storagewall served to hide media machines and also to organize the gendered relations of labor and leisure in media homes...
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Test-Bed Urbanism

Orit Halpern, Jesse LeCavalier, Nerea Calvillo, Wolfgang Pietsch
Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 272–306.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2020602
Published: 01 March 2013
...Orit Halpern; Jesse LeCavalier; Nerea Calvillo; Wolfgang Pietsch This essay interrogates the new forms of experimentation with urban territory emerging as a result of ubiquitous computing infrastructures. We label these protocols “test-bed urbanism.” Smart, sentient, stupid, and speculative all...
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Network Celebrity: Entrepreneurship and the New Public Intellectuals

Fred Turner, Christine Larson
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 53–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2798343
Published: 01 January 2015
...Fred Turner; Christine Larson This article identifies a mode of intellectual influence and popular celebrity that has emerged alongside American computer science and collaborative engineering: “network celebrity.” By tracking the tactics and impact of three key intellectual entrepreneurs — Norbert...
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Counting the Uncountable: Revisiting Urban Majorities

AbdouMaliq Simone, Vyjayanthi Rao
Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 151–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8917150
Published: 01 May 2021
...AbdouMaliq Simone; Vyjayanthi Rao Abstract Sustainable urban transformation increasingly relies upon technicities of computation and interoperability among variegated registers and domains. In contrast, the notion of an “urban majority,” first introduced by the authors nearly a decade ago, points...
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Futures of Life and Futures of Reason

Achille Mbembe
Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 11–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8742136
Published: 01 January 2021
... will set the boundary that distinguishes between the calculable and the incalculable? In the double-edged conditions of our times, what will it take to turn instruments of calculation into instruments of liberation? Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 future life reason computation...
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Engines of the Future: On Chess and Temporal Topography

John Cheney-Lippold
Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 181–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11158965
Published: 01 May 2024
... on the present. Figure 1 An x-y graph illustrating the topographical surface of the present. Figure 1 An x-y graph illustrating the topographical surface of the present. A computer sits, processing. On its screen is a chessboard, an eight-by-eight grid marked with pawns, pieces, and open...
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“Wave Fronts of Calculation”: A Response to Achille Mbembe

Erica Robles-Anderson
Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 35–40.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8742148
Published: 01 January 2021
... possibilities in a moment when calculability and incalculability determine the boundaries between the biological, social, and technical. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 borders computing smart regime computational Two questions confront us today and will haunt us for most...
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Lie Detectors: On Secrets and Hypersecurity in Los Alamos

Joseph Masco
Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 441–467.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-14-3-441
Published: 01 September 2002
... was the announcement a month later that a U.S. nuclear weapons scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory had illicitly downloaded to nonsecured computers almost the entire archive of nuclear weapons design codes developed during the Cold War era of nuclear testing. Of fourteen high-capacity This essay...
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The Digital Cloud and the Micropolitics of Energy

Allison Carruth
Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 339–364.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2392093
Published: 01 May 2014
... computers to servers, and 1993, when the Mosaic PC browser was released ( O’Malley and Rosenzweig 1997 : 133). 6 “Over 80 percent of this toxic pollution comes from the high-tech industry, primarily from leaks and spills of volatile organic compounds” such as copper, Freon, lead, and chlorinated...
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Science and the State

Alondra Nelson, Charis Thompson, Sonja van Wichelen, Joy Rohde, Joshua Barkan ...
Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 279–288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10742439
Published: 01 September 2023
... and often reinvigorate older paradigms of racism, sexism, and colonialism in newer technoscientific projects such as the biosciences or the computational sciences. Finally, the third intervention concerned the role of the social and human sciences. These fields arose as a means for states to define...
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Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices: On Gender and the Development of Contemporary Public Sites of Repair in Northern California

Daniela K. Rosner
Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 51–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2346250
Published: 01 January 2014
... shop at the East Bay Maker Faire, an operation run, at the time, by O’Reilly Media, the computer book publisher that also distributed the do-it-yourself Make magazine. 5 The company’s heavy use of bold primary colors, stark Helvetica type, and brassy, busy graphics reflects an aesthetic of form...
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The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Fragility

Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Glenn Wharton
Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 215–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816365
Published: 01 January 2020
...Figure 1 Lovers , by Teiji Furuhashi, 1994. Computer-controlled, five-channel laser disc/sound installation with five projectors, two sound systems, two slide projectors, and slides (color, sound). ...
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Democracy without Freedom

Erica Robles-Anderson, Arjun Appadurai
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 1–5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435384
Published: 01 January 2022
.... The Essays section opens with “The Ambient Politics of Affective Computing,” by Angela Xiao Wu. Affective computing has emerged as a domain of interest amid the frenzy of surveillance capitalism and algorithmic governance discourse. It promises that emotions can be recognized and classified and that models...
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Imaginary of Behavioral Governing: From Nudges to Algorithms

Magdalena Małecka
Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 343–354.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10742509
Published: 01 September 2023
... of behavioral research. The behavioral sciences of nudging policies have roots in the cognitive revolution in psychology of the 1970s, particularly in the interdisciplinary research settings that merged computer science, cybernetics, and cognitive science and were funded by US military research agencies...
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From Englishization to Imposed Multilingualism: Globalization, the Internet, and the Political Economy of the Linguistic Code

Daniel Dor
Public Culture (2004) 16 (1): 97–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-1-97
Published: 01 January 2004
...” in Internet closes U.S. lead. Marketing News 34 , no. 4: 7 -8. Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L., and Noam Tractinksy. 1999 . Consumer trust in an Internet store: A cross-cultural validation. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 5 , no. 2 (Web publication at www.ascusc.org/jcmc ). Judy, Ronald A. T. 1999...
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Data and Control a Digital Manifesto

Wolfgang Pietsch
Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 307–310.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2020611
Published: 01 March 2013
... equipped with various kinds of sensors and instruments, autonomously collecting information to transfer it to central archives, where the data would be analyzed and scanned for reliable relations. Our computers and laptops are such machines...
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