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Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Stuart J. Murray Copyright © 2003 Qui Parle 2003 NETWORK DIGITAL INFORMATION HUMACHINES: A CONVERSATION WITH MARK POSTER Stuart J. Murray Stuart-J. Murray— Perhaps I can start by asking you a general ques- tion about subjectivity as this pertains to electronic media. My...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 199–231.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of the artwork. Under autopoiesis, the emphasis is not so much on the behavior of the system for producing a signal or information as it is on the reflexive processes generating those behaviors. According to N. Katherine Hayles, autonomy under autopoiesis refers to the system’s state of being “informationally...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 June 2017
... as the use of powerful, probabilistic algorithms premised on reducing the “given” to calculable “data,” a reduction in turn founded on and bringing about the reduction of knowledge to information. The entropic character of the data economy can then be conceived as the elimination of the incalculable...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 7–26.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the essay demonstrates is how both the ghost and the poem are informed by logics of analog mediation (rather than representation): how the ghost finds purchase in the world only through bodily possession, spatial haunting, material displacement, and psychic transference and how the poem effects...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 109–142.
Published: 01 June 2022
... by the specific arrangement of atoms in its molecular architecture. Like a hammer that is a mirror, the prion compresses and folds surrounding proteins, making its environment identical to itself. This essay studies how information exchange occurs for the prion for the purpose of arguing for a philosophy...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 63–78.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Nicholas Baer Abstract This essay examines the role of rumors in F. W. Murnau’s films as well as in later writings about his life and career. While Murnau perpetuates long-standing figurations of gossip as a frivolous or even malicious activity, he also grants unverified information a truth value...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 335–352.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Abstract This essay offers a meditation on how the idea of being human as praxis, as developed by Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick, applies to a melting planet. What is the intersubjectivity demanded by (and causing) the deadly heating of the ocean, and how is it informed...
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Published: 01 December 2017
, but the only thing that we do manage to catch a glimpse of is the information vacuum. Nothing exists. Nothing happens. Nothing has been forgotten.” All images courtesy of Sergei Zhdanovich More
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 347–362.
Published: 01 December 2024
... and expenditure. Leaving principles of information undertheorized, Pasquinelli ultimately fails to consider that when surplus value takes an informatic form, “labor”—disanalogous to classical laws of energy (work)—subsequently transforms into a nonphysical, dimensionless, yet purely interactive unit...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 119–157.
Published: 01 June 2021
... : Princeton University Press , 1995 . Beniger James . The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1986 . Callon Michel . “ What Does It Mean to Say That Economics Is Performative? ” In Do Economists...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 231–295.
Published: 01 December 2022
... B: “ Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr .” through “White Supremacy”; General Office File, Group IV, Box A-71, Schools—Texas, 1966–1968. Kelley Center for Government Information, Data and Geospatial Services, Fondren Library, Rice University . “ Black Power Revolt at Texas Southern .” Movement ( SNCC...
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Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 159–161.
Published: 01 June 2003
... of the History Department at the University of California, Irvine. He has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Information and Computer Science. He is a member of the Critical Theory Institute. His recent books are: What's the Matter with the Internet...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 June 2021
... to forward the following lines of argumentation: (1) The economic problem is about the limited knowledge of free individuals that establish the optimal price of commodities on the basis of incomplete information. (2) Knowledge is acquired through the act of classification or pattern recognition...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 263–278.
Published: 01 June 2012
.... The action of the fi lm begins in Toronto circa 1987, a time and place diegetically informed by the fi lm’s thematization of HIV/ AIDS, and intertexually overdetermined by the full range of ac- tivism and discourse on the disease that had taken place between then and the fi lm’s...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 15–24.
Published: 01 June 2020
... to be sufficient grounds for detention. There was no obligation to inform relatives or friends of the location of those detained, so detention became, ominously, synonymous with disappearance. A release at the end of ninety days meant only that the detained person came before a judge, and if insufficient...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 101–125.
Published: 01 December 2012
... seems intrigued by how they might inform or scare people forever. In their hesitation to answer Madsen’s questions, they dis- play a reluctant sense of duty to a law that dumbfounds them, as if they are being asked to safeguard a mythical world. For instance, when Madsen asks, “What if someone fi...
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Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 21–47.
Published: 01 June 2003
... or form of print. The stability of printed information, the authority of printed information, and the trust placed in printed information derive from this physical condition and from the ability to create multiple copies of an orig- inal. . . . Printed information is also...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 107–149.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of the federal Offi ce of Scientifi c Research and De- velopment. In the 1945 article “As We May Think,” Bush proposed the Voder as one element of his Memex, a memory-extending desk or information-management system, which famously infl uenced Theodore Nelson’s theory of hypertext. Bush saw in the Voder...
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 125–155.
Published: 01 June 2014
... written on how we could have arrived at the instabilities of our economic system, yet my goal here is not to enter into competition with genuine eco- nomic historians. Let me at least name a few rough elements and pieces of information, though, before I come to my actual theme...
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Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2016
... suggest that the matter on which the dossier informs is that of the cinematic image from the 1960s forward. Four of the fi ve essays off er extended analyses of cin- ematic images of a particular contemporary fi lmmaker: Rei Terada on repletion and totality in Masao Adachi’s landscape fi lms, Damon...