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- Metaphors of descent, birth, childhood, family, and reproduction are routinely applied to emergent technologies. This dissertation contends that in the second half of the 20th …
- Year:
- 2024
- Contributor:
- Rowson, Rose (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
- Li, Jinying (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- History
- Biopolitics
- history of technology
- American History
- Feminist theory
- Obstetrics
- Media studies
- Social Reproduction
- Family
- ultrasound
- Biography
- Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging
- Media history
- History of computing
- Media Archaeology
- Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- Lisa computer
- Microcomputers
- Donald, Ian, 1910-1987
- Video display terminals--Safety measures
- Video display terminals
- Fetal Personhood
- Intrauterine contraceptives
- United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Smith College Archives
- Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
- Feminism (Women's liberation movement)
- New Media
- Paternity testing
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- National Women's Health Network (U.S.)
- 9to5
- Gender and Sexuality
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- This dissertation evaluates how the advent of digital technologies have implicated film and media studies in recent debates over the legacy of critical theory and …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Lee, Nathan (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Copjec, Joan (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Critical theory
- media theory
- Literary theory
- Affect theory
- digital aesthetics
- Film theory
- Critique
- Cinema
- Postcritique
- Poststructuralism
- Animation
- Apparatus
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Racial Technics is a cultural, historical, and theoretical study that traces how competing conceptions of humanity and human freedom have been articulated at the nexus …
- Year:
- 2017
- Contributor:
- Litwack, Michael Ian (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (Reader)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- race
- American modernity
- Humanism
- Cybernetics
- media theory
- black freedom struggle
- Television
- Wynter, Sylvia
- philosophy of technology
- Communication and culture
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- We are often told that we live in an age of protest, given the rise of political movements such as Black Lives Matter, the Women’s …
- Year:
- 2018
- Contributor:
- Padmanabhan, Lakshmi (creator)
- Gandhi, Leela (Advisor)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
- Schneider, Rebecca (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Ethics
- Photography
- Postcolonialism
- Aesthetics
- South Asia
- temporality
- Critical Race Studies
- Feminist theory
- Experimental films
- Postcolonialism in motion pictures
- Women's rights
- Anti-imperialist movements
- Neoliberalism
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Touch/Death/Work: Film Form and the Creation of Images examines how cinema engages the interrelated concepts of touch, death, and work. Through close formal analysis of …
- Year:
- 2026
- Contributor:
- Garcia, Elizabeth Emma (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Copjec, Joan (Reader)
- Li, Jinying (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Aesthetics
- Hospitals
- community
- Experimental films
- Diagnosis
- Pathology
- Touch
- Film theory
- Metaphysics (Aristotle)
- Work
- Psychanalytic Film Theory
- Artists' films
- Medical films (Motion pictures)
- Nancy, Jean-Luc
- Dialogue in motion pictures
- Experience
- Death and Dying
- Morgues
- Basements
- Obstinacy
- Potentiality
- Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
- Blanchot, Maurice
- Tim Gunning
- Mary Ann Doane
- Phillip Rosen
- Indexicality
- Film
- Oskar Negt
- Alexander Kluge
- Working to death
- inoperativity
- Dialogue
- relation
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- Description:
- Design has come to serve as a solution to almost every problem from climate change to college grades. “Toward a Utopia Without Revolution: Developmentalism, Globalization, …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Jung, Seungyeon (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Li, Jinying (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- South Korean History
- Media studies
- Design and history
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations