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North of Empire

Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space

By: Jody Berland

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North of Empire

Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space

By: Jody Berland

For nearly two decades, Jody Berland has been a leading voice in cultural studies and the field of communications. In North of Empire, she brings together and reflects on ten of her pioneering essays. Demonstrating the importance of space to understanding culture, Berland investigates how media technologies have shaped locality, territory, landscape, boundary, nature, music, and time. Her analysis begins with the media landscape of Canada, a country that offers a unique perspective for apprehending the power of media technologies to shape subjectivities and everyday lives, and to render territorial borders both more and less meaningful. Canada is a settler nation and world power often dwarfed by the U.S. cultural juggernaut. It possesses a voluminous archive of inquiry on culture, politics, and the technologies of space. Berland revisits this tradition in the context of a rich interdisciplinary study of contemporary media culture. Berland explores how understandings of space and time, empire and margin, embodiment and technology, and nature and culture are shaped by broadly conceived communications technologies including pianos, radio, television, the Web, and satellite imaging. Along the way, she provides a useful overview of the assumptions driving communications research on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border, and she highlights the distinctive contributions of the Canadian communication theorists Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. Berland argues that electronic mediation is central to the construction of social space and therefore to anti-imperialist critique. She illuminates crucial links between how space is traversed, how it is narrated, and how it is used. Making an important contribution to scholarship on globalization, Berland calls for more sophisticated accounts of media and cultural technologies and their complex “geographies of influence.”

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Duke University Press

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0822388669

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9780822388661

Virtual Menageries

Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures

By: Jody Berland

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Virtual Menageries

Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures

By: Jody Berland

The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks. From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries, Jody Berland examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications. Her richly illustrated study links the contemporary proliferation of animals on social media to the collection of exotic animals in the formative years of transcontinental exploration and expansion. By tracing previously unseen parallels across the history of exotic and digital menageries, Berland shows how and why animals came to bridge peoples, territories, and technologies in the expansion of colonial and capitalist cultures. Berland's genealogy of the virtual menagerie begins in 1414 when a ruler in Bengal sent a Kenyan giraffe to join a Chinese emperor's menagerie. It maps the beaver's role in the colonial conquest of Canada and examines the appearances of animals in early moving pictures. The menagerie is reinvented for the digital age when image and sound designers use parts or images of animals to ensure the affective promise and commercial spread of an emergent digital infrastructure. These animal images are emissaries that enliven and domesticate the ever-expanding field of mediation. Virtual Menageries offers a unique account of animals and animal images as mediators that encourage complicated emotional, economic, and aesthetic investment in changing practices of connection.

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325

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MIT Press

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0262553430

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9780262553438

Capital Culture

A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art

By: Jody Berland,Shelley Hornstein

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Capital Culture

A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art

By: Jody Berland,Shelley Hornstein

The twelve essays in the collection address cultural theory, aesthetics, and policy issues related to the economics of art in the context of globalization and the spreading influence of the practices and ideologies of market culture. With particular reference to Canada, they question whether these shifts and the rise of new media technologies are endangering or enriching public participation, democratic negotiation, and cultural diversity. The book includes essays by John Fekete on Innis and censorship, Thierry de Duve on global markets, Nicole Debreuil on the Voice of Fire controversy, and Mark Cheethum on Alex Colville and Andy Patton. It also includes specifically commissioned artworks by leading Canadian artists such as Vera Frenkel and Cheryl Sourkes. Authors: Bruce Barber (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), Jody Berland (York), Mark A. Cheetham (Western), Thierry de Duve (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC), Michael Dorland (Carleton), Nicole Dubreuil (Montreal), John Fekete (Trent), Shelley Hornstein (York), Johanne Lamoureux (Montreal), Brenda Longfellow (York), Janine Marchessault (McGill), Paul Mattick, Jr (Adelphi),and Anne Whitelaw (Alberta). Artists: Karl Beveridge, Michael Buckland, Carole Conde, Vera Frenkel, Janice Gurney, John Marriott, Luke Murphy, Yvonne Singer, Cheryl Sourkes, John Veenema, and Ron Wakkary.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773567178

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9780773567177

No Five Fingers are Alike

Cognitive Amplifiers in Social Context

By: Joseph C. Berland

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No Five Fingers are Alike

Cognitive Amplifiers in Social Context

By: Joseph C. Berland

Snake charmers, bards, acrobats, magicians, trainers of performing animals, and other nomadic artisans and entertainers have been a colorful and enduring element in societies throughout the world. Their flexible social system, based on highly specialized individual skills and spatial mobility, contrasts sharply with the more rigid social system of sedentary peasants and traditional urban dwellers. Joseph Berland brings into focus the ethnographic and psychological differences between nomadic and sedentary groups by examining how the experiences of South Asian gypsies and their urban counterparts contribute to basic perceptual habits and skills. No Five Fingers Are Alike, based on three years of participant research among rural Pakistani groups, provides the first detailed description in print of Asian gypsies. By applying methods of anthropological observation as well as psychological experimentation, Berland develops a theory about the relationship between social experience and mental growth. He suggests that there are certain social conditions under which mental growth can be accelerated. His work promises to stand as an important contribution to the cross-cultural literature on cognitive development.

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Harvard University Press

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0674625404

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9780674625402

Raindrops and Roses

By: Berland Stewart

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Raindrops and Roses

By: Berland Stewart

Berland Bill Stewart is a Jamaican who went to the U.K. after graduating High School. After several years of struggles he served the Royal Air Force for five interesting years in the U.K. and the Middle East and eventually gained National recognition as an athlete and heavyweight boxing champion. On his return to the U.K from his military tour overseas he attended and graduated from the British Institute of Engineering Technology, a private Engineering Institution in London England. Berland returned to Jamaica after spending 12 years in the U.K. when he met and marry Sybil a secretary in the Jamaica Civil Service. He has been successfully married now for over 40 years and the proud parent of four successful college graduates and grand children. After working with the Jamaica Civil Service as an Engineer he relocated to the U.S.A. with his family where they currently reside. Despite his engineering training in the U.K. Berland had to further qualify himself educationally to meet the prescribed U.S.A. requirement. This requirement was met when he graduated in Architectural Drafting and subsequently employed by the N.Y. City Board of Education. After years of secretarial employment Sybil also had to be retrained, graduated and worked as a Registered Nurse before her retirement. The thought of being a successful grandfather is a fulfillment of his dreams, and believes that with perseverance the pursuit of ones goals should never be underestimated.

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Xlibris Corporation

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By: Berland Stewart

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North of Empire

North of Empire

Virtual Menageries

Virtual Menageries

Capital Culture

Capital Culture

No Five Fingers are Alike

No Five Fingers are Alike

Raindrops and Roses

Raindrops and Roses

Raindrops and Roses

Raindrops and Roses

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