Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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Description:: This thesis argues that the work of contemporary writer Tan Lin proposes, through the figure of “ambient textuality,” an intervention into existing theories of “ambience” …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Kan-Sperling, Lucia (creator); Redfield, Marc (thesis advisor); Bewes, Timothy (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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Subject:: Media studies; Experimental poetry; Digital media; Derrida, Jacques; Cybernetics; Contemporary literature; Semiotics and literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Posthumanism; Metaphor; Experimental fiction; Ecocriticism in literature; Ambient music; Ubiquitous computing; information; Literary form; Tan Lin
Language:: English
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Description:: This dissertation takes as its focus three episodes when the notion of neural networks was not only deployed as a solution to the problem of …
Year:: 2023
Contributor:: Lepage-Richer, Théo (creator); Chun, Wendy (Advisor); Rieppel, Lukas (Reader); Koch, Gertrud (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Cybernetics; History of Medicine; Digital media; science and technology studies; Artificial intelligence; Media history; History of computing; Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934; McCulloch, Warren S. (Warren Sturgis), 1898-1969; Hinton, Geoffrey E.
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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
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