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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Technological modernity"”.
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A residual infrastructure. The rise and obsolescence of big satellite television dishes in Colombia
… years, big satellite dishes changed not only technologically, but also in how government agents, businesses, and users conceived of them. Grounded in infrastructure studies of media and Latin American communication and science and technology studies, this dissertation looks at three particular …
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Female Detectives, Female Criminals: An Examination Of Crime, Modernity And The New Woman In Early French And American Crime Films In The Us During The 1910s
… crime films within the context of social and technological modernity related to the increase of women working outside the home, the advent of communicative technology, early innovations in transportation and the increased accessibility and openness of the modern city. More significantly, this …
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A Syncretic Modernism: Articulations of Painting in Turkey (1910s-1940s)
… for the local. Oil painting had been a marker of modernity and social emancipation already in the Ottoman period; it was a vessel in attaining a level of civilization contemporaneous with the rest of the world (read Europe), a crucial tool in the ongoing pursuit of technological modernity, and …
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Supra-Egyptian Islamic and Pan-Arab identities and acculturated Muslim Egyptian intellectuals, 1892-1952
… populations (using the West's economic and technological modernity). Although the intellectuals still developed affinities and outreaches to wider non-Arab Muslim and Eastern peoples, the inner more unitary political community is gradually contracted and separated to within the sphere of …
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Supra-Egyptian Islamic and Pan-Arab identities and acculturated Muslim Egyptian intellectuals, 1892-1952
… populations (using the West's economic and technological modernity). Although the intellectuals still developed affinities and outreaches to wider non-Arab Muslim and Eastern peoples, the inner more unitary political community is gradually contracted and separated to within the sphere of …
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Melancholy Machines: On Vitalism and Mechanism in the Poetics of the Historic Vanguards in Latin America
… accordance with certain critical commonplaces: technological references in poems tend to be abstract—signposting global connectedness and cosmopolitanism—rather than engaging actual machines embedded in social reality; and planes, trains and automobiles—fixating upon velocity—tend to translate a …