...Rob Wilkie Video games have become a significant aspect of the technology industry, yet they have also become for many the image of an emerging contradiction said to reside at the heart of digital capitalism, namely that capitalism is no longer based upon the exploitation of workers' labor...

... to show that this often marginalized literary-philosophical concept takes center stage in the political, ethical, scientific, and technological transformations that cast a shadow on present and future generations. © 2020 Virginia Tech 2020 mimesis literary theory literary criticism...

..., specifically asking about their relationships with the AI systems with which they work. Their answers often reflected a broader spectrum of co-creation, expanding the social conversation and complicating issues of agency and nonagency, technology and power, for the sake of human and nonhuman futures alike...

... on realism, allegory, and myth. He describes his own cultural analysis as an attempt to uncover the contradictory situations that produced solutions in the form of culture, literature, art, philosophy, technology, politics, or history. He attributes the famous difficulty of his sentences to their trying...

... development of Chinese higher education, he is also concerned with its obsession with money, which can produce quick returns but long-term disaster. An overemphasis on technology and science, as well as on business and economics, will harm the great legacy of Chinese literature and art. He points out...

... are inherently technological. It is not mere humans that have reached out and changed the climate but humans extended by planet-scale economies and industries. The computed climate models that show us the climate has changed are just another way we’ve come to rely on automated devices to understand what...

... acoustic research. Or have they? Some scientists and lawyers now claim that “active” Navy sonar, an acoustic technology relying in part on marine mammal study, can harm cetaceans and have brought court challenges to block government-sponsored “noise imperialism” in response...

... is Good for You has a more specific goal in mind—to explain how popular culture is making people smarter—but his interest in how the contemporary mind creates (and improves on) systems for problem-solving covers similar territory as Powers' novel. Johnson claims that new technologies...

... try now to look at the other side of the question, and that is from the side of technology [tecnica]. From the very beginning an unbreakable link was noted—just read Plato in this regard—that joins technology to politics. All discourses (including Habermas’ but also Arendt’s) that begin...

...: these include contemporary media-technological discourses, which range from Alfred N. Whitehead’s process-philosophy to Ben- jamin Libet’s “short delay”3 and which seek to make out a new realm for media intervention (see Ernst 2011). Another tradition runs parallel to this idea of the primacy...

...” experiences that corresponded with subject positions. For this reason, findings were oddly satisfying, confirming earlier reports regarding the power of affect in shaping identity. Then in year three of the project, a more advanced real-time tracking technology was installed in the recycled...

... 25 : 35 – 54 . Jameson Fredric . 2007 . Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions . London : Verso . Juenger Friedrich Georg . 1949 . The Failure of Technology: Perfection without Purpose , translated by Wieck F. D. . Hinsdale, IL...

...Timothy Campbell; Federico Luisetti © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Works Cited Campbell Timothy . Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2011 . Derrida Jacques . The Beast and the Sovereign . Trans...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Jeffrey J. Williams Science Stories: An Interview with Donna J. Haraway With her concept of the “cyborg,” Donna Haraway provided a new way to think about the relation between modern technology and organisms, showing how...

... Jussi . 2013 . “ The Geology of Media .” Atlantic , October 11 . www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-geology-of-media/280523/ . Posner Roland , ed. 1984 . “ Und in alle Ewigkeit . . . . Kommunikation über 10000 Jahre” (“And unto All Eternity . . . . Communication across...

... . “ The Question Concerning Technology ”. In The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays , translated by Lovitt William , 3 – 35 . New York : Harper and Row . Humphreys Macartan Sachs Jeffrey D. Stiglitz Joseph E. 2007 . Escaping the Resource Curse . New York : Columbia...

... technologies. There is a seeming limitless range of opportunities for a faculty member to distribute his or her work, from setting up a web page or blog, to posting an article to a working paper website or institutional repository, to including it in a peer-reviewed journal or book...

... in Abstraction (on Alan Liu, The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information [U of Chicago P, 2004] and McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto [Harvard UP, 2004]) Literary and technological cultures have been converging for some decades, so goes one argument, maybe since...

... on specific books. For examples, check the review essays in this or recent past issues. —​Janell Watson, Editor Balsamo, Anne. 2011. Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Berlant, Lauren. 2011. Cruel Optimism. Durham, NC: Duke University...

... as its starting point the presupposition that technological advances within the devel- opment of capital have shifted commodity production from material goods to immaterial products such as “knowledge, language, science, culture, art, information, forms of life, relations with oneself, others...