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Materialist Media Theory

An Introduction

By: Grant Bollmer

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Our technologies rely on an ever-expanding infrastructure of wires, routers, servers, and hard drives-a proliferation of devices that reshape human interaction and experience prior to conscious knowledge. Understanding these technologies requires an approach that foregrounds media as an agent that collaborates in the production of the world beyond content or representation. Materialist Media Theory provides an accessible, synthetic account of the cutting edge of the theoretical humanities, examining a range of approaches to media's physical, infrastructural role in shaping culture, space, time, cognition, and life itself. More than a mere introduction, Materialist Media Theory provides a critical intervention into matter and media, of interest to students and researchers in media studies, communication, cultural studies, visual culture, and beyond. Media determine our reality, and any politics of media must begin by foregrounding the media's materiality.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501337106

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The Affect Lab

The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion

By: Grant Bollmer

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The Affect Lab

The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion

By: Grant Bollmer

Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have used technological forms of media to measure and analyze emotion. In The Affect Lab, Grant Bollmer examines the use of measurement tools such as electrical shocks, photography, video, and the electroencephalograph to argue that research on emotions has confused the physiology of emotion with the tools that define its inscription. Bollmer shows that the psychological definitions of emotion have long been directly shaped by the physical qualities of the devices used in laboratory research. To investigate these devices, The Affect Lab examines four technologies related to the history of psychology in North America: spiritualist toys at Harvard University, serial photography in early American psychological laboratories, experiments on “psychopaths” performed with an instrument called an Offner Dynograph, and the development of the “electropsychometer,” or “E-Meter,” by Volney Mathison and L. Ron Hubbard. Challenging the large body of humanities research surrounding affect theory, The Affect Lab identifies an understudied problem in formulations of affect: how affect is a construction inseparable from the techniques and devices used to identify and measure it. Ultimately, Bollmer offers a new critique of affect and affect theory, demonstrating how deferrals to psychology and neuroscience in contemporary theory and philosophy neglect the material of experimental, scientific research. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452969817

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Inhuman Networks

Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection

By: Grant Bollmer

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Inhuman Networks

Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection

By: Grant Bollmer

Social media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of “the network” as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where “the human” is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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The Influencer Factory

A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube

By: Grant Bollmer,Katherine Guinness

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The Influencer Factory

A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube

By: Grant Bollmer,Katherine Guinness

Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness. They are figures of a new transformation in capitalism, in which the logic of the self is indistinguishable from the logic of the corporation. Influencers are emblematic of what Bollmer and Guinness call the "Corpocene": a moment in capitalism in which individuals achieve the status of living, breathing, talking corporations. Behind the veneer of leisure and indulgence, most influencers are laboring daily, usually for pittance wages, to manufacture a commodity called "the self"—a raw material for brands to use—with the dream of becoming corporations in human form by owning and investing in the products they sell. Refuting the theory that digital labor and economies are immaterial, Bollmer and Guinness search influencer content for evidence of the material infrastructure of capitalism. Each chapter looks to what literally appears in the backgrounds of videos and images: the houses, cars, warehouses, and spaces of the market that point back to the manufacturing and circulation of consumer goods. Demonstrating the material reality of producing the self as a commodity, The Influencer Factory makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of contemporary economic life.

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Stanford University Press

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1503638804

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Theorizing Digital Cultures

By: Grant D. Bollmer

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Theorizing Digital Cultures

By: Grant D. Bollmer

The rapid development of digital technologies continues to have far reaching effects on our daily lives. This book explains how digital media—in providing the material and infrastructure for a host of practices and interactions—affect identities, bodies, social relations, artistic practices, and the environment. Theorizing Digital Cultures: Shows students the importance of theory for understanding digital cultures and presents key theories in an easy-to-understand way Considers the key topics of cybernetics, online identities, aesthetics and ecologies Explores the power relations between individuals and groups that are produced by digital technologies Enhances understanding through applied examples, including YouTube personalities, Facebook’s ‘like’ button and holographic performers Clearly structured and written in an accessible style, this is the book students need to get to grips with the key theoretical approaches in the field. It is essential reading for students and researchers of digital culture and digital society throughout the social sciences.

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The Affect Lab

The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion

By: Grant Bollmer

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The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion

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Darwin in Galápagos

Footsteps to a New World

By: K. Thalia Grant,Gregory B. Estes

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Darwin in Galápagos

Footsteps to a New World

By: K. Thalia Grant,Gregory B. Estes

Recreates the scientist's historic visit to the Galapagos Islands using his original notebooks and logs, the latest findings by scholars and researchers, and the authors' first-hand knowledge of the archipelago.

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Princeton University Press

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Inhuman Networks

Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection

By: Grant Bollmer

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Inhuman Networks

Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection

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Theorizing Digital Cultures

By: Grant D. Bollmer

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The rapid development of digital technologies continues to have far reaching effects on our daily lives. This book explains how digital media--in providing the material and infrastructure for a host of practices and interactions--affect identities, bodies, social relations, artistic practices, and the environment.--

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Conversations with General Grant

An Informal Biography

By: Thomas Grant McConnell

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Conversations with General Grant

An Informal Biography

By: Thomas Grant McConnell

National Endowment for the Humanities Survey reveals that only 406 of 700 college seniors were able to answer correctly in which half-century the Civil War took place. This distressing statistic is not only an indictment of the nation's educational system, it also points an accusing finger at the textbooks & histories which line the shelves of libraries & bookstores. This book will not reform our school program. It will, however, present a different concept of the way that historical biographies may be written. In this book, the author, a retired Air Force colonel & former Director of Military History at The National War College, encapsulates the dominant personalities of the Civil War & many of the events into just 245 easily read pages. Despite its conciseness, the author analyzes Grant's attributes & failings & leads the reader through the legendary minefield of Grant myths to a clear understanding of this much maligned man. Thoroughly dissected are subjects as Grant's reputation as an alcoholic, his meteoric rise from despondent store clerk to Commanding General & the dark cloud of failure which hovered over him in civilian life. Blended with Grant's story are graphic descriptions of the bloody battles as well as his relations with Lincoln, Lee & others.

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1878332104

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The George Grant Reader

By: George Parkin Grant,William Christian,Sheila Grant

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The George Grant Reader

By: George Parkin Grant,William Christian,Sheila Grant

Grant was a prolific writer, engaged by subjects ranging from Canadian politics to ancient philosophy. The first book to bring together a comprehensive selection of his work, allowing readers to sample the whole range of his interests in one volume.

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0802079342

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Collected Works of George Grant: 1951-1959

By: George Parkin Grant

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Collected Works of George Grant: 1951-1959

By: George Parkin Grant

A collection of all the important material from the 1950s when philosopher Geroge Grant did his first teaching and writing at Dalhousie University.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802007635

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Collected Works of George Grant: 1933-1950

By: George Parkin Grant,Henry Roper

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Collected Works of George Grant: 1933-1950

By: George Parkin Grant,Henry Roper

Included are Grant's early reviews, a brief journal written as he recovered from tuberculosis in 1942, his earliest social and political writings, and his DPhil thesis on the Scottish philosopher John Oman.

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0802007627

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LIFE & WRITINGS OF GRANT THORB

By: Grant 1773-1863 Thorburn

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LIFE & WRITINGS OF GRANT THORB

By: Grant 1773-1863 Thorburn

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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1363533134

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Illustrated Life, Campaigns and Public Services of Lieut. General Grant ... with a Full History of His Life, Campaigns, and Battles, and His Orders, R

By: Ulysses S. Grant

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Illustrated Life, Campaigns and Public Services of Lieut. General Grant ... with a Full History of His Life, Campaigns, and Battles, and His Orders, R

By: Ulysses S. Grant

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Palala Press

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1378014138

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George Grant in Conversation

By: George Parkin Grant,David Cayley

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George Grant in Conversation

By: George Parkin Grant,David Cayley

Historian Ramsay Cook called George Grant one of Canada's two most important political thinkers in the twentieth century. In these lively conversations, recorded not long before Grant's death, David Cayley explores with Grant the deep roots of his faith, his evolution as a thinker, and his views on the future of Canada.

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House of Anansi

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0887845533

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George Grant

Selected Letters

By: George Parkin Grant

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George Grant

Selected Letters

By: George Parkin Grant

William Christian has selected some three hundred letters, postcards, telegrams, and journal entries which reveal much about Grant - both the troubled man and the daring thinker.

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