Author: Lucy CliffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 264
Book Description
A wild proxy
Author: Lucy CliffordA wild Proxy
Author: William Kingdon CliffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages :
Book Description
Proxy
Author: Alex LondonPublisher: Philomel Books
ISBN: 0399257764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"Privileged Knox and and his proxy, Syd, are thrown together to overthrow the system"--
Proxies
Author: Dylan MulvinPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262045141
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
How those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included--and who is excluded--in the future. Our world is built on an array of standards we are compelled to share. In Proxies, Dylan Mulvin examines how we arrive at those standards, asking, "To whom and to what do we delegate the power to stand in for the world?" Mulvin shows how those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included--and who is excluded--in the future. For designers of technology, some bits of the world end up standing in for other bits, standards with which they build and calibrate. These "proxies" carry specific values, even as they disappear from view. Mulvin explores the ways technologies, standards, and infrastructures inescapably reflect the cultural milieus of their bureaucratic homes. Drawing on archival research, he investigates some of the basic building-blocks of our shared infrastructures. He tells the history of technology through the labor and communal practices of, among others, the people who clean kilograms to make the metric system run, the women who pose as test images, and the actors who embody disease and disability for medical students. Each case maps the ways standards and infrastructure rely on prototypical ideas of whiteness, able-bodiedness, and purity to control and contain the messiness of reality. Standards and infrastructures, Mulvin argues, shape and distort the possibilities of representation, the meaning of difference, and the levers of change and social justice.
Cassell's Magazine
Author: Play Index
Author: Emerging Zoonotic and Wildlife Pathogens
Author: Dan SalkeldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198825927
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The first textbook to describe the ecology and epidemiology of wildlife and zoonotic (animal-to-human) infectious diseases and the applications to conservation biology and public health. Examples of disease agents enliven the text and illustrate many of the theories presented.
The Magazine of Art
Author: Public Opinion
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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