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...Mara Mills Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Media and Prosthesis1 The Vocoder, the Artifi cial Larynx, and the History of Signal Processing mara mills Vocal Codes American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) com- memorated the twenty- fi fth anniversary of the fi rst...

..., undeveloped fi gures— the animal, the un-emancipated woman, and the slave. Where once the animal had been the hu- man’s ontological other, now the animal became a reminder of un- actualized humanity. The narrative of progress and the instrumentalization of suf- fering illuminate British offi cials...

... to the main Río Piedras campus and hired a private fi rm, Capitol Security, for $1.5 million instead of using its own unionized campus security guards. A former high-ranking police and fi re department offi cial now at the fi rm hired youth through the youth division at the offi ce...

... at self- preservation. The subject can be expected to react to injurious or dangerous encounters in a defensive manner and to benefi cial or affi rming encounters in an open and welcoming manner. These reactions, which occur in the mind, will necessarily relate the mind to its objects in a specifi c...

... occurs here in an evacu- ated space, just as American “settlement” required a foundational expression of liberalism in order to locate the “oppressor” at a spe- cial remove from the colonies. The settler can become a native and fi gure the native as a foreigner. The native ends up in a precarious...

...- interest might also be an active creation of an antirelational discourse strug- gling to retreat from dominant systems of commodifi ed communica- tion, on the one hand, and reifi ed classifi cations of sexual identity, on the other.17 This baldly superfi cial, anti- confessional discourse...

... of Walter Rüegg, it was “a corporation controlled by the state and incorporated into the hierarchy of the civil service [aiming at] three primary goals: fi rst, to secure for the post-revolutionary state and its society the offi cials necessary for political and social stabilization; second, to make...

... of the US Federal Reserve, put it this way: suddenly his “view of the world,” his “ideology,” and his long- lived, putatively valid belief system no longer functioned; the “whole intellectual edifi ce” of the fi nan- cial economy broke down.1 The economic sciences thus could no longer understand...

..., what enclosed (real or imagined) realm or territory, what processes and fi elds of activity, what kind of natural, artifi cial, or human resources. In other words, while sovereignty may be understood as “the highest authority” at both the political and legal register, this defi nition...

... the government to civilian hands).5 Despite this difference, the leftist political identity of the individuals who were targeted for the practice of enforced disap- pearance and the offi cial denial and concealment of their fate were remarkably alike. The fact that both these disappearances took place...

... that the team with an architect came up with an architectural solution.”5 Team B had two anthropolo- gists and, also perhaps in turn, settled on a pictographic solution. Lomberg explained that these were inspired by the warning signs of the National Park Service (“TI Something offi cial-looking, he...

.... Yet this argument, committed to a hard- eyed acknowledgment of the nothingness of human things, repeats a sacrifi cial plot as it extracts meaning from the void. Here are some of the book’s closing sentences: 62 qui parle spring/summer 2013 vol.21, no.2 [I]t is precisely...

... of the extraterritorial Anthropocenic subject. To sum up, in such a geo- anthropological confi guration, Earth 2.0 could realize a specifi c kind of acosmism, of disappearance of the world through its artifi cial re- placement; at the same time, the posthuman would fulfi ll an anan- thropy through the technological...

... are very capable intellectually and politically. From the beginning of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti in 1936 they’ve developed their own offi cial political discourse, inscribed it in their own publications. They’ve invented their own analysis, their own defi nition of the Hindu...

... avors of soup and, moreover, they are both “companion soups” that is, “chicken with rice” and “bean with bacon.” Indeed, the diptych evokes a drama of companionship and estrangement, but confi gured as a superfi cial relation and simple juxtaposition; in other words, it is all...

... are engaged in: (not) thinking (almost) togeth- er, exchanging and changing, through meanings and conceptions inscribed in bodies, sounds, words, papers, electronic signals, so- cial facts. The intellective is not purely noetic. It is also more and less than the cognitive...

..., slightly desynchronized, had been recorded separately and then spliced to- gether. The extent to which the moving image itself evoked a desire for the commodity form was a product of artifi cial construction; even the choreography and choral gestures had been obtained via 62 qui parle spring...

... this me- dia event. As expected, many Orthodox clergy were quick to label the performance blasphemous, claiming it insulted believers and 6 qui parle spring/summer 2014 vol. 22, no. 2 violated a sacred space. The offi cial indictment drew on the same language, describing...

... on the patriarchy; that is, on a binary, hierarchical, oppressive gender formation that rests on male supremacy without any clear understanding of the mechanisms by which heterosexuality, capitalism, and ra- cial classifi cation are impossible to understand apart from each...

..., translated by Samuel Martin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. Elcott, Noam M. Arti cial Darkness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Emmerich, Karen. Literary Translation and the Making of Originals. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. qui parle Vol. 27, No. 1, June 2018 doi 10.1215/10418385-6979468 © 2018...