Nina Mingya Powles - Small Bodies of Water
English | Size: 333.94 MB
Category: AudioBook

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1479809667 | 233 pages | pdf | 2.26 MB
Uncovers how the process of sexual assault adjudication reinforces inequality and becomes a public spectacle of violence

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1800730667 | 275 pages | True PDF | 7.1 MB
Exploring how technological apparatuses "capture" invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. Technological and scientific discourse has always been central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spiritualist quest for legitimacy, but as this book shows, machines, people, and invisible beings are much more ontologically entangled in their definitions and constitution than we would expect. The book shows this entanglement through a series of contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.

Stuart Murray, "Disability and the Posthuman: Bodies, Technology and Cultural Futures "
English | ISBN: 178962164X | 2020 | 256 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse cultural representations and deployments of disability as they interact with posthumanist theories of technology and embodiment. Working across a wide range of texts, many new to critical enquiry, in contemporary writing, film and

Geeta Patel, "Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance "
English | ISBN: 0295742488 | 2017 | 385 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements―including the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance, debt, and mortgages; gender and sexuality; and domesticity and nationalism―Geeta Patel demonstrates how science and technology ground our everyday intimacies. The result is a deeply poetic and philosophical exploration of the intricacies of techno-intimacy, revealing a complicated and absorbing narrative that challenges assumptions underlying our daily living.

Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation - A Comparative Theology of Divine Possessions
pdf | 8.36 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-9004420038 | Author: Joshua Samuel | Year: 2020

Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt by Shana Minkin
2019 | ISBN: 1503608921 | English | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transimperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British imperial rule. Thousands of European subjects lived, worked, and died there. And when they died, the machinery of empire had to negotiate for space, resources, and control with the nascent national state. Imperial Bodies shows how the mechanisms of death became a tool for exerting both imperial and national governance.

Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies by Jacob Johanssen and Diana Garrisi
English | Mar 4, 2020 | ISBN: 1138603015 | 196 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Bringing together scholars from around the world to research the intersection between media and disability, this edited collection aims to offer an interdisciplinary exploration and critique of print, broadcast and online representations of physical and mental impairments.

Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent - Naked, Veiled, Vilified, Worshiped
pdf | 7.22 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09254VZHK | Author: Fischer, Elisabeth; von Tippelskirch, Xenia; | Year: 2021

Giving Bodies Back to data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology (Leonardo) by Silvia Casini
English | August 3rd, 2021 | ISBN: 026204529X | 312 pages | True EPUB | 76.44 MB
An examination of the bodily, situated aspects of data-visualization work, looking at visualization practices around the development of MRI technology.