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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"alternate futures"”.
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“One Place for All the Ways We Play”: The Corporate Sociotechnical Imaginary of Cloud Game Streaming
… cloud gaming, and calls for scholars to imagine alternate futures for the digital game industry.
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The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop
… more just world or limit our ability to imagine alternate futures.</p> <p>Following the ethos of Steven Jackson’s essay “Rethinking Repair,” the paper takes the “breakdown, erosion, and decay” of images as a starting point. Images change meaning over time as our cultural connections to them …
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Valuable bridges : cable-stayed bridges and value engineering in American civil engineering culture, 1969-1979
… studies for highway bridges presents the alternate bridge designs versus alternative bridge typologies selected during this period as one instance of American civil engineering culture adapting to major bridge projects the economically measured but industrial approach to choosing, …
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The making and meaning of gay space : the case of the Castro in San Francisco
… this space is both material and social. With alternate futures possible, it is not clear whether a gay ghetto is even needed in San Francisco anymore. However, what has been learned by studying the Castro is useful in understanding and creating gay and specialized spaces elsewhere.
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Future Climate Rhetorics of Belize: A Counter-Apocalyptic Inquiry into Belize’s Possible, Probable, and Preferable Futures
… proposing the ‘rhetoric of hope’ to discuss the futures projected by the farmers in spite of the industry’s bleak outlook. Chapter three builds from the case study through a sonic rhetoric performance writing experiment using passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) devices deployed in the concession to …
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Utopian Hope vs. Merely-Political Combat: Directionality for the Kingdom of God
… This focus requires the privileged to consider alternate imaginaries for possible futures while additionally requesting assistance from the marginalized to appropriately parse them. I conclude by examining several instances of liminal 'utopias' that have occurred in the wake of tragic events. …