Search Results for digital technology

..., and inchoate. He and I share an interest in finding a language to bring together the analysis of cognitive capitalism and algorithmic infrastructures with makeshift technical systems that are often the ways that digital technologies exist in much of the world. Doing so shows how digital cinema in Nigeria rests...

...Fernando Domínguez Rubio; Glenn Wharton Impermanence and fragility have become the defining conditions of the digital age. Technologies that were ubiquitous barely a decade ago, like floppy disks, now look like archaeological relics. It takes only a few years, if not months, before software...

... created a new ecology for the documentation, sharing, and global dissemination of “ephemeral” street art that has fueled its popularity while complicating its commercialization, reception, and political impact. It shows how digital technologies mediate the tension between the countercultural aspirations...

...Henrietta L. Moore; Constance Smith In Kenya, the terms dotcom and digital have become popular descriptors for particular periods of change, as well as for modes of being. The two terms’ usage extends beyond reference to the age of the Internet or to encounters with new technologies. Rather...

...” or “analogous” “middle” that conditions existence. Putting analog critique into action, this essay not only lays bare the nominalist premises of much critical theory, but also sheds new light on current debates about the meaning of digital and analog technologies and the underlying logics they are presumed...

... that animates tech corporate governmentality user democracy . User democracy is a technocratic approach to politics, including a belief in the programmability of digital public life. Democracy here becomes a project of technological optimization and management by a technocratic elite, not one of common...

... home in on digital technologies and media that, we feel, have received scant critical and theoretical attention to date. Our aim is to offer a new genealogy of contemporary visual culture that centers at once on environmental risk and environmental justice and, at the same time, makes a case for both...

... that depends on the rapid obsolescence of its products, as evinced by the company's ongoing efforts to prevent third-party repair of Apple devices and other practices that would prolong the life of Apple gadgets. For a review, see Jackson and Kang 2014 ; Stone 2020 . 24. On the digital technology...

... with uncertainty. In this sense, the digital tools available to online poker players can be understood as technologies of the self, famously described by Michel Foucault (1997 : 225) as those “which permit individuals to effect by their own means or with the help of others a certain number of operations...

..., and to the extent that digital technologies are amplifying their reach, network intellectuals have an extraordinary if often invisible power to enlist the rest of us in their worldview. Their power and their celebrity no longer come from the ability to express ideas in words or the ability of mass media...

..., with roots that go back at least as far as Plato, reminding us that democracy was never meant for the great unwashed, and that the opening of its doors to the masses was, as Friedrich Hayek put it, “the road to serfdom.” Another default answer targets the golem of digital technology, which is blamed...

... by the increased efficacy that digital technologies now provide consumers. At the agency’s expense. Organizational restructuring is more than simply a drive to lower costs or the result of another such efficiency motive. Agency managers see all realignments as part of the process of creativity, as fundamental...

... presents us with insights into how we use digital media to think about nature, technology, and modern society. The mediated images of cabin porn not only articulate broader social trends but also shape them and give them direction. In drawing our attention to the visual appearance of a good life in nature...

...Brian T. Edwards Large-scale demonstrations during January and February 2011 forced the departure of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Many Western commentators represented these events as a digital revolution, attributing authorship as much to the technologies of the digital age—particularly...

... in digital infrastructure and a belief in the possibility of “improving life through technology” (Living PlanIT 2012). These projects operate at a range of scales: from the development of a 225,000- person “smart valley,” as in Portugal’s Living...

... for digital technologies depend on rare earth metals such as indium, terbium, coltan, and lithium. Access to these resources will play a key role in twenty-first-century territorial disputes and geopolitics. In the twenty-first century, media analysis will center on places such as the Ogasawara (or Bonin...

... of People.cn at Shanghai Stock Exchange (2017), 12, http://static.sse.com.cn/disclosure/listedinfo/announcement/c/2018-04-17/603000_2017_n.pdf . 10. I treat digital technologies as supporting architecture that renders assembly legible—what Judith Butler ( 2015 : 18 – 19) calls “conditions of appearance...

.... The detailed study of mobility and stasis, as well as other material asymmetries of research, can enable more imaginative maps and more heterogeneous passages for the production of knowledge. 2017 colonialism digital technology maps Palestine West Bank To some, maps are an ultimate expression...

... by cutting-edge technology. As film fades to black and screen cultures become almost exclusively digital, this quintessential modern medium remains an indispensable conceptual tool for understanding an era of hypermodernization, especially as experienced in the emerging megacities of East Asia. Just...

..., religious and cultural activities, and relations to sacred land and environments are the targets of digital enclosure and devaluation, resulting in forms of technological possession and capital accumulation for those who benefit from the system. Utilizing a reading of biopolitical theories of security...