Search Results - "Representations (Berkeley, Calif.)"

Surface Reading: An Introduction by Best, Stephen, Marcus, Sharon

“…In the text-based disciplines, psychoanalysis and Marxism have had a major influence on how we read, and this has been expressed most consistently in the…”
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Building a Better Description by MARCUS, SHARON, LOVE, HEATHER, BEST, STEPHEN

“…Universally practiced across the disciplines, description is also consistently devalued or overlooked. In this introduction to the special issue “Description…”
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Bodies of Lenin: The Hidden Science of Communist Sovereignty by Yurchak, Alexei

“…This essay analyzes the project of maintaining the body of V. I. Lenin in the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow for the past ninety years. It focuses on the…”
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"You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong": On Technological Determinism by Peters, John Durham

“…This essay offers both a genealogy of the concept of technological determinism and a metacritique of the ways academic accusations of fallaciousness risk…”
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An Ecology of Operations: Vigilance, Radar, and the Birth of the Computer Screen by GEOGHEGAN, BERNARD DIONYSIUS

“…This article examines the birth of interactive computer screens from enemy targeting and tracking systems (especially computerized radar) that distributed…”
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"A Good Communist Style": Sounding Like a Communist in Twentieth-Century China by HARTONO, M. PAULINA

“…This essay focuses on the history and politicization of radio announcers' vocal delivery in China during the mid-twentieth century. It explores how Chinese…”
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You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong: On Technological Determinism by PETERS, JOHN DURHAM

“…This essay offers both a genealogy of the concept of technological determinism and a metacritique of the ways academic accusations of fallaciousness risk…”
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The Ethos and Telos of Michoacán’s Knights Templar by LOMNITZ, CLAUDIO

“…This essay is an ethnographic exploration of the ethos and mores of Mexico’s contemporary drug culture. It uses temporal directionality (telos) to interpret…”
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On the Knees of the Body Politic by HUTSON, LORNA

“…This paper analyzes the fullest theoretical elaboration of the doctrine of the King's Two Bodies in the Elizabethan period, Edmund Plowden's Treatise on the…”
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Calais’s “Jungle”: Refugees, Biopolitics, and the Arts of Resistance by SANYAL, DEBARATI

“…In fall 2016, the French state razed Calais’s “jungle,” encampments that had sheltered close to 10,000 refugees. An analysis of film and photography set in the…”
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Visual History: The Past in Pictures by BLEICHMAR, DANIELA, SCHWARTZ, VANESSA R.

“…This essay defines the category of “visual history” and introduces its operations across the essays included in this special issue. It proposes that such…”
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Performing (In)Attention: Ælfric, Ælfric Bata, and the Visitatio sepulchri by WEAVER, ERICA

“…The central regulatory document of the tenth-century English Benedictine Reform, Æthelwold of Winchester's Regularis concordia, contains an important…”
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The Medium Concept by SHECHTMAN, ANNA

“…In the second half of the twentieth century, in the very decades when the concept of "media" entered the vernacular, the "medium concept" began to shape…”
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On Verminous Life by ROY, PARAMA

“…By the nineteenth century, models of just and civilized sociability in the Anglophone world came to encompass forms of obligation to the nonhuman, and the…”
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The Sultan Hernán Cortés: The Double Staging of The Conquest of Jerusalem by HUGHES, NICOLE T.

“…In 1541, the Franciscan friar Motolinía sent to Spain an account of the Tlaxcalan people performing the religious drama The Conquest of Jerusalem in Tlaxcala,…”
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The Medium Concept by Shechtman, Anna

“…In the second half of the twentieth century, in the very decades when the concept of “media” entered the vernacular, the “medium concept” began to shape…”
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Natural Histories of Form: Charles Darwin's Aesthetic Science by DUNCAN, IAN

“…Arguing that aesthetic preference generates the historical forms of human racial and gender difference in The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin offers an…”
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Bob Dylan in the Country by Hampton, Timothy

“…At the close of the 1960s two developments changed the shape of mainstream rock and roll music. The first was a new focus, on the part of a number of…”
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The Sultan Hernán Cortés by Hughes, Nicole T.

“…In 1541, the Franciscan friar Motolinía sent to Spain an account of the Tlaxcalan people performing the religious drama The Conquest of Jerusalem in Tlaxcala,…”
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Performing (In)Attention by Weaver, Erica

“…The central regulatory document of the tenth-century English Benedictine Reform, Æthelwold of Winchester’s Regularis concordia, contains an important…”
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