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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Technophilia"”.
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Ingenious Devices: Engineering Fictions and American Technophilia, 1900--1940
The condition for the emergence of this fiction, paradoxically enough, was the widening cultural rift between scientists and non-scientists. Because few members of the general public understood the material they were appropriating, their educational experiences and social concerns largely …
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Provoking Technophilia: The Umfundisi Tech Centre & Portable Fundi Labs
This thesis stemmed from the idea that we as a society find it harder and harder to understand even the everyday technologies around us. It is argued that despite the seemingly limitless opportunities for self-learning in the ‘information age’, an interest for the technological is still not …
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Between Technophilia, Cold War and Rationality: A Social and Cultural History of Digital Art
Evoking his early personal experiences, computer art pioneer Paul Brown wrote in the mid-1990s that to work with computers was akin to a ‘kiss of death’. According to him, as a result of sheer prejudice, the majority of people in the art world did not acknowledge such artworks as interesting, valid …
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An analysis of selected ""cyberpunk"" works by William Gibson, placed in a cultural and socio-political context
… However, they were also expressions of a kind of technophilia which, while similar to that of much earlier science fiction, possessed its own special dynamic. In many ways this technophilia contradicted or undermined the classical liberalism nominally practiced in the United States. However, the …
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The Shadow of Polaris: Understanding Sound and Place
… explored by examining the ideas of biophilia, technophilia, and sonification. The relationship between these ideas is synchronous with the idea of intimacy with place in today’s world. If we listen, our pre-existing ideas of what we know about our world, and our place in it, begin to shift. …
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The Shadow of Polaris: Understanding Sound and Place
… explored by examining the ideas of biophilia, technophilia, and sonification. The relationship between these ideas is synchronous with the idea of intimacy with place in today’s world. If we listen, our pre-existing ideas of what we know about our world, and our place in it, begin to shift. …
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The Body Machinic: Technology, Labor, and Mechanized Bodies in Victorian Culture
… that the particular forms of technophobia and technophilia that dominate today--in which humans become increasingly mechanical, or machines become increasingly life-like--are a direct inheritance of Victorian constructions of human and mechanical as categorically opposed, and of the resulting …