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From: American Poetry[(essay date Spring 1988) In the following essay, Schenker argues that Kinnell's poetics present a "post-Darwinian" view of human civilization's relationship to nature.] The poems in Mortal Acts, Mortal Words and The...
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From: Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, part of a book-length discussion of the ethics of biotechnology, Lake utilizes “The Birth-Mark” as a case study in the drawbacks of embarking on elective surgery as a result of...
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From: Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Darcy places James’s novel The Children of Men within a subgenre of dystopian fiction about technology, human reproduction, and the rights of women. She discusses the political...
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From: National Review[(review date 14 September 1992) In the following review, Klinghoffer compares Postman's Technopoly with George Gilder's Life after Television. Klinghoffer asserts that Postman offers wise advice about developments in...
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From: Et Cetera[(essay date winter 2003) In the following essay, Strate reflects posthumously on Postman's scholarship and influence.] Neil Postman (1931-2003) died on Sunday, October 5th, 2003, at the age of 72, after battling lung...
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From:Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory (Issue 108) Peer-ReviewedWhen administrative scientists look to the current scholarship surrounding the phenomenon of technological development, they will inevitably be forced to grapple not only with an entire battery of abstract theories...
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From:The New Yorker (Vol. 89, Issue 15)In 1978, the year that I graduated from high school, in Palo Alto, the name Silicon Valley was not in use beyond a small group of tech cognoscenti. Apple Computer had incorporated the previous year, releasing the first...
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From:Hispanic Review (Vol. 75, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThere is comfort knowing that this introduction to a special number on new media and Hispanic studies will find its way into the seemingly stable, albeit archaic refuge of a paper journal. New media, defined by its...
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From:Women and Language (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEslea, M. and P. K. Smith. "From the Woman Question in Technology to the Technology Question in Feminism: Rethinking Gender Equality in IT Education." European Journal of Women's Studies, 7( 2) (2000): 209-227. There...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 115, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. Parable of the Unjust Steward, LUKE 16:1-8 FEW MATTERS go as little remarked as the socially levelling effect of technology, especially information technology, yet it--for better...
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From:Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy (Issue 145) Peer-ReviewedAs with all material culture, the digital is a constitutive part of what makes us human. Social order is itself premised on a material order, making it impossible to become human other than through socialising within a...
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From:Information & Culture (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere is very little published literature on the display of computing technology in museums and galleries. This article reviews a variety of displays, from the early 1970s to the 1990s, to show how computing and...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFeminism can boast a substantial record of ambitious, contentious, and smart scholarship on reproductive technology stretching back to the years just after the birth in the United Kingdom of Louise Brown, the first in...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 125, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDestruction of the environment is not a new phenomenon. It has been going on since the dawn of human habitation. However, there is considerable evidence that science and technology can create more efficient ways to...
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From:New Formations (Issue 93) Peer-ReviewedIn this article, we contribute to thinking about the emergence of the face in digital culture. Building on work in the fields of art history, cinema studies, and surveillance studies, which have long established a...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 45, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedQtAznBoi: chris? cwalsh44: who is this? QtAznBoi: i want 2 ask u about the HW ... cwalsh44: who is this?!? QtAznBoi: :) cwalsh 44: ??? QtAznBoi: i tried to find u online, but u werent on before, when...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 125, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe National Academy of Engineering, the Electric Power Research Institute and Rockefeller University's Program for the Human Environment collaborated on a study of how technological innovations will affect the...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 58, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRAYMOND GOZZI, JR. (*) The second half of the 1990s experienced a "dot-corn boom" in the stock market and the media. Internet startup companies, with web addresses ending with ".com," were the hot commodity of the...
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From:Hispanic Review (Vol. 75, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"a modification of the fabric of the sensible, a transformation of the visible given" --Jacques Ranciere, "Art of the Possible" (264) Cardboard is hardly a material we associate with new media or digital...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedComputers create a special challenge for the Native cultures of North America. Clearly they can be highly useful in maintaining networks, sharing information between culture groups, and enabling people to communicate...