Proxies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proxies write by Dylan Mulvin. This book was released on 2021-08-17. Proxies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included--and who is excluded--in the future. Our world is built on an array of standards we are compelled to share. In Proxies, Dylan Mulvin examines how we arrive at those standards, asking, "To whom and to what do we delegate the power to stand in for the world?" Mulvin shows how those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included--and who is excluded--in the future. For designers of technology, some bits of the world end up standing in for other bits, standards with which they build and calibrate. These "proxies" carry specific values, even as they disappear from view. Mulvin explores the ways technologies, standards, and infrastructures inescapably reflect the cultural milieus of their bureaucratic homes. Drawing on archival research, he investigates some of the basic building-blocks of our shared infrastructures. He tells the history of technology through the labor and communal practices of, among others, the people who clean kilograms to make the metric system run, the women who pose as test images, and the actors who embody disease and disability for medical students. Each case maps the ways standards and infrastructure rely on prototypical ideas of whiteness, able-bodiedness, and purity to control and contain the messiness of reality. Standards and infrastructures, Mulvin argues, shape and distort the possibilities of representation, the meaning of difference, and the levers of change and social justice.
The Politics of Cultural Work
The Politics of Cultural Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Cultural Work write by M. Banks. This book was released on 2007-11-09. The Politics of Cultural Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through a wide-ranging study of labour in the cultural industries, this book critically evaluates how various sociological traditions - including critical theory, governmentality and liberal-democratic approaches - have sought to theorize the creative cultural worker, in art, music, media and design-based occupations.
The Culture Map
The Culture Map - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culture Map write by Erin Meyer. This book was released on 2014-05-27. The Culture Map available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.
Hands
Hands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hands write by Janet Zandy. This book was released on 2004. Hands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In linking forms of cultural expression to labour, occupational injuries and deaths, this title centres what is usualyy decentred - the complex culture of working class people.
Sensational Designs
Sensational Designs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sensational Designs write by Jane Tompkins. This book was released on 1986-05-29. Sensational Designs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this provocative book, Jane Tompkins seeks to move the study of literature away from the small group of critically approved texts that have dominated literary discussion over the decades, to allow inclusion of texts ignored or denigrated by the literary academy. Sensational Designs challenges comfortable assumptions about what makes a literary work a "classic."
