Speculative Fictions for Understanding Global Change Environments: Two Thought Experiments [PDF]
The purpose of a thought experiment, as the term was used by quantum and relativity physicists in the early part of the twentieth century, was not prediction (as is the goal of classical experimental science), but more defensible representations of ...
Noel Gough
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Análise feminista de propostas pós-humanas da tecnologia patriarcal
Chasqui, 2017 This work looks into the posthuman proposals of technology from a gender perspective and within the feminist framework of social sciences. It analyses the regulation of life by technology from a critical standpoint on the treatment that media and the ...
Isabel Tajahuerce Ángel +2 more
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Pioneering the Personal Robotics Industry [PDF]
, 2009 The up and coming industry that I will be reporting about here is the personal and home robotics industry. I will show how the development cycle in the United States functions. I will then answer the question: What are the main limits that hold back this
Nickerson, Russell
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Bohemians and Gentlemen. The representation of artists in British society 1850-1950 [PDF]
, 2015 How do we understand the artist; how do we imagine he or she lives? Is our view formed by visiting exhibitions or artists' studios, reading criticism, biography or novels, looking at self-portraits and photographs, watching films?
Dakers, Caroline
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Post-feminism at an impasse? The woman author heroine in postrecessionary American film [PDF]
, 2018 In this article, I sketch some of the ways in which postrecessionary films such as Young Adult problematise post-feminism as a “genre of living.” In deploying heroines who orient themselves toward the post-feminist good life by taking up the desirable ...
Thouaille, Marie-Alix
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Ursula K. Leguin, o relatos para una puesta en escena distinta
La Manzana de la Discordia, 2016 Resumen: Reconociendo la importancia de los relatos para la imagen que las mujeres se formarán de sí mismas, se plantea la necesidad de acometer la tarea feminista de ir en busca de nuevos relatos, de nuevos argumentos, que nos permitan reescribir la ...
Susana Matallana
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Beyond mystery: Putting algorithmic accountability in context [PDF]
, 2019 Critical algorithm scholarship has demonstrated the difficulties of attributing accountability for the actions and effects of algorithmic systems. In this commentary, we argue that we cannot stop at denouncing the lack of accountability for algorithms ...
Crawford K +12 more
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The Faculty Notebook, March 2005
, 2005 The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest.
Provost\u27s Office,
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The Gendered Deconstruction of Technology and the Female Body in Science Fiction Films from a Post-Human Perspective [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesWith the rapid development of digital information technology, artificial intelligence, computer technology, and biotechnology, science fiction movies have become an important medium for exploring the concepts of “posthumanism” and “cyborg”.
Zhang Xinyi
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal : pharmacological immortality in science fiction [PDF]
, 2012 Immortality is a common feature in science-fiction (SF). This paper lists the ways in which the pharmacological induction of immortality has been depicted in SF, and the resultant outcomes.
Callus, Ivan +2 more
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