bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Проектирование визуального ряда настольной игры
Authors: А.М. Савинов , А.С. Горячевская
Published: November 2024

актуальность исследования обусловлена недостаточной разработанностью методов выполнения дизайна настольных игр, которые являются неотъемлемой частью жизни человека, они помогают познавать мир и могут перерастать в полноценное обучение и творчество. Целью статьи является представление авторского опыты разработки визуального ряда настольной игры, обоснование особенностей и этапов проектирования, исходя из тематики и целевой аудитории. Использованы методы работы с иллюстрациями и проектирование настольных игр параллельно с работой над анализом специальной литературы. В статье приводятся примеры отличия стилистических особенностей дизайна игры для разных групп людей. Рассматриваются проблемы разработки дизайна настольной игры в контексте образования посредством игры. Материалы статьи могут быть полезны педагогам, осуществляющим подготовку дизайнеров. Кроме того, результаты исследования можно использовать при составлении учебных программ и методических рекомендаций с целью их применения в консультативной работе при подготовке дизайнеров.

the relevance of the study is due to the insufficient development of methods for the design of board games, which are an integral part of human life, they help to explore the world and can develop into full-fledged learning and creativity. The purpose of the article is to present the author's experiences of developing a visual series of a board game, substantiating the features and stages of design, based on the subject and the target audience. The methods of working with illustrations and designing board games were used in parallel with the work on the analysis of special literature. The article provides examples of differences in the stylistic features of the game design for different groups of people. The problems of developing a board game design in the context of education through play are considered. The materials of the article can be useful for teachers who train designers. In addition, the results of the study can be used in the preparation of curricula and methodological recommendations in order to apply them in advisory work in the training of designers.
TRANSFORMASI PRAKTIK AKREDITASI BAN-PDM MALUKU MELALUI PELATIHAN DARING DALAM PENERAPAN INSTRUMEN AKREDITASI TERBARU
Authors: Hamizar Arizal , Wakano Abidin , Hasanah Nur , Marantika Juliaans E. , Limba Anatasija , Malasari Dewi Qhuril , Matitaputty Jenny Koce , Tamaela Eduard Yohannis
Published: November 2024

The purpose of this community service is to enhance the capacity of BAN-PDM assessors in Maluku Province through online training on the 2024 Accreditation Instrument. This training aims to deepen assessors' understanding of key aspects of educational accreditation, such as school climate, principal leadership, the role of educators, and the learning process. By integrating online methods, it is expected that this training can address the geographical challenges in the Maluku archipelago and improve the quality of educational accreditation in the region. The results of this training show that online methods are effective in enhancing assessors' understanding of the latest accreditation instruments. Despite facing technical challenges and connectivity limitations, participants demonstrated a significant increase in their understanding and skills related to educational accreditation. The evaluation of the training results indicates that assessors can effectively apply new knowledge in their accreditation practices, making a positive contribution to improving the quality of education in Maluku Province.
Sistema sectorial de innovación de la industria cárnica. Caso San Luis Potosí
Authors:   Universidad Politécnica de San Luis Potosí, Palos Cerda Gloria Cristina
Published: November 2024

La industria cárnica en nuestro país expone una desarticulada vinculación entre sus actores, un deficiente marco institucional, retos en rezago tecnológico y de extrema complejidad operativa en sus redes de interacción. Por ello, la presente obra aporta un modelo de gestión para el Sistema Sectorial de Innovación (ssi) de la industria cárnica en el estado de San Luis Potosí a través de sus elementos estructurales (Vínculos de colaboración y redes, Marco regulatorio e Infraestructura) y funcionales (Investigación y Desarrollo, Vigilancia de oportunidades, Alianzas y colaboraciones, Estrategia de innovación, Organización de innovación y Adquisición y Transferencia de Capacidades de Innovación) a fin de viabilizar su estructura innovadora.
Policy Diffusion on New and Renewable Energy in Indonesia
Authors: Mendrofa Andika Sefatia , Sugandi Yogi Suprayogi , Rusli Budiman , Amalia Prita
Published: November 2024

This research emphasizes the need for a specific legal framework to harmonize new and renewable energy (NRE) policies in Indonesia, as current efforts to develop and implement NRE have been slow. By exploring policy diffusion, this study aims to offer solutions for accelerating NRE usage through relevant policies. Using a qualitative approach, it examines four policy diffusion mechanisms from Ring’s framework: (i) learning, (ii) competition, (iii) imitation, and (iv) coercion. The 2015 Paris Agreement, which Indonesia ratified in 2016, plays a key role in diffusing NRE policies, especially through coercive mechanisms.The study’s findings suggest that (i) the Paris Agreement’s global benchmarks provide a basis for Indonesia to adopt a learning mechanism, using insights from other countries that have met their NDCs; (ii) the competition mechanism could help Indonesia attract funding from developed countries by positioning itself as a viable candidate for climate aid; (iii) through imitation, Indonesia can adopt successful NRE policies from other countries, adapting them to local needs; and (iv) coercive mechanisms require Indonesia, as a Paris Agreement signatory, to enforce NRE policies aligned with international climate goals. The research concludes that Indonesia should integrate all four policy diffusion mechanisms into its NRE strategy and advocates for a specific NRE law. This law would unify related regulations, align policies with international standards, attract investment, and support Indonesia’s NRE goals under the Paris Agreement.
The benefits of CUSIP non-permanence: Reverse splits
Authors: Meyn Cynthia
Published: November 2024

The unique identification of securities is the basic building block of financial markets. It is impossible to trust anything else about a security without first knowing what is being bought and who is selling it. Security identifiers provide that critical function almost invisibly, allowing trades to be executed, cleared, settled and tracked in a standardised, consistent manner across the countless individual portfolios and security master files that make up the global financial system. This concept is so fundamental and critical to the efficient operation of our financial markets that it is often taken for granted. Two recent trends, however, have forced a closer look at the underlying governance structure of security identifiers as a potential source of trade settlement failure and confusion among market participants. The rise in popularity of reverse stock splits and the introduction of alternative securities identifiers that use a different approach to cataloguing these types of corporate actions has created a scenario in which market participants using different securities identification taxonomies will see the same underlying security two different ways. The phenomenon puts a spotlight on the issue of securities identifier permanence and raises serious questions about when an identifier needs to change to address corporate actions. This paper argues that the approach utilised in the governance of the Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures (CUSIP) and International Security Identification Number (ISIN) identifiers, whereby identifiers change in response to corporate actions, is critical to the maintenance of efficient financial markets.
Adapting custody services for modern asset managers and asset owners
Authors: Russell Bruce , Coombes Harry , Singh Jaibeer
Published: November 2024

Custodian banks have long been the unsung supporters of the investment industry, ensuring the smooth operation of transactions, servicing large institutions and infrastructure to support significant amounts of money management. As modern asset managers and asset owners continue to grow, however, they will demand more from their custodian- partners. The demand for services will come from more sophisticated, technology-reliant functions, and as such, the role of custodians will undergo a profound transformation. What has helped custodians be successful so far — reliance on people and process to deliver services — will not continue to help them in the future. This paper explores considerations for custodians and the adaptations required in their service models to meet contemporary challenges. We conclude that a fundamental shift is required away from traditional mindsets to ensure custodians remain central to supporting the needs of asset managers and asset owners.
LIBERDADE DE IMPRENSA E A REGULAMENTAÇÃO DAS REDES SOCIAIS SOB A PERSPECTIVA DOS DIREITOS FUNDAMENTAIS
Authors: Queiroz Ezequiel Batista de
Published: November 2024

The article addresses the importance of press freedom as a fundamental right in democratic societies and examines the impacts of social media regulation on this right. The main objective of the work is to critically analyze how new information dynamics and contemporary challenges, such as the dissemination of misinformation and online censorship, affect the performance of the media and the protection of press freedom. The research uses the deductive method, based on a bibliographical review that includes doctrines, scientific articles and legal documents, to develop an in-depth understanding of the intersections between press freedom and the regulation of digital platforms. Among the main conclusions, the need to create a regulatory framework that balances the protection of freedom of expression with civil responsibility stands out, as well as effective mechanisms to combat disinformation. The article emphasizes that freedom of the press adequately protected and exercised is fundamental to promoting transparency and accountability in institutions, contributing to a healthier and fairer democratic society.
A EFICÁCIA DO TRATAMENTO FISIOTERAPÊUTICO NA QUALIDADE DE VIDA DOS PACIENTES COM ALZHEIMER
Authors: Mota Ana Clara Martins da , Silva Gabriela Lopes da , Matos Adriana Cavalcanti de Macedo
Published: November 2024

Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a eficácia do tratamento fisioterapêutico na qualidade de vida  de pacientes com Doença de Alzheimer, investigando como as intervenções fisioterapêuticas podem  contribuir para a manutenção das funções motoras, o aumento da independência nas atividades diárias  e o bem-estar geral desses pacientes. Foi realizada uma revisão integrativa, com levantamentos de dados  nas bases Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde (BVS) e National Library of Medicine (PubMed), resultando em  dez estudos relevantes. Os resultados obtidos indicam que as intervenções fisioterapêuticas, incluindo  exercícios de fortalecimento, equilíbrio e atividades aeróbicas, trazem benefícios significativos para a  mobilidade e funcionalidade dos pacientes, além de reduzir o risco de quedas e promover maior  independência nas atividades cotidianas. A prática fisioterapêutica demonstrou potencial para minimizar  o declínio das capacidades físicas e contribuir para o bem-estar emocional dos pacientes, especialmente  quando aplicada de forma contínua e adaptada às necessidades individuais. Conclui-se que, embora não  reverta os déficits progressivos da Doença de Alzheimer, a fisioterapia oferece melhorias significativas  na qualidade de vida, sendo uma estratégia complementar essencial no cuidado e suporte ao paciente  com Alzheimer.
DEFEITO ÓSSEO DE STAFNE: REVISÃO DE LITERATURA
Authors: Costa Tiago de Souza , Araújo Diego Santos de , Araújo Mariana Alvares de , Galdino Juliana Liberal Guerra , Silva Júnior Eliclaudio Alves da , Chaves Neto William , Chaves Rafaela Miranda Porto
Published: November 2024

Stafne's Bone Defect (SBD), or mandibular lingual depression, is a condition characterized by a radiolucent cavity, first described in 1942 by Edward Stafne. SBD is usually asymptomatic and discovered incidentally on routine radiographic examinations. The condition, predominantly male, occurs most frequently in men in the fifth and sixth decades of life, with a typical location in the posterior region of the mandible, below the inferior alveolar nerve canal. The methodology consisted of a systematic search in the PubMed, Cochrane and gray literature databases, using MeSH terms such as "Stafne bone defect". Only case reports in living patients were included, excluding studies on cadavers. Results - it was found that most cases of Stafne's Bone Defect (SBD) occur in the posterior region of the mandible, with a male predilection and an incidence between 0.1% and 0.48%. The most accepted etiology is glandular compression, leading to bone resorption. The conclusion highlights the importance of collaboration between dentists and radiologists for accurate diagnosis and appropriate management of Stafne's Bone Defect.
OSDU - why no data egress?
Authors: McNaughton Neil
Published: November 2024

Back from the 2024 ECIM data management conference, Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton remains puzzled as to what OSDU is trying to achieve. While OSDU is developing paths for data ingestion to the cloud, data exit and use is conflicted. Whatever happened to the consumption zones? Why is there ‘turmoil in the Forum?’ He concludes by running OSDU against the DARPA/Heimler ‘catechism’ for project evaluation … with underwhelming results.
10 Propositions for Doing Media Theory (Again)
Authors: Raetzsch Christoph
Published: November 2024

Christoph Raetzsch's manifesto for Media Theory
Manifesto: Graphic, Sonic, Affective Object
Authors: Birkin Jane
Published: November 2024

Jane Birkin's manifesto for Media Theory
Media Theory: How Can We Live the Good Life in Strata?
Authors: Shields Rob
Published: November 2024

Rob Shields's manifesto for Media Theory
Prolegomenon to a Media Theory of Machine Learning: Compute-Computing and Compute-Computed
Authors: Berry David M.
Published: November 2024

David M. Berry's manifesto for Media Theory
Going South and Engaging Non-Western Modernities
Authors: Shome Raka
Published: November 2024

Raka Shome's manifesto for Media Theory
The 'Theory' in Media Theory: The 'Media-Centrism' Debate
Authors: Flew Terry
Published: November 2024

Terry Flew's manifesto for Media Theory
Counting Media: Some Rules of Thumb
Authors: Mitchell W.J.T.
Published: November 2024

W.J.T. Mitchell's manifesto for Media Theory
Earth Constellations: Agrarian Units and the Topological Partition of Space
Authors: Gil-Fournier Abelardo
Published: November 2024

During the Spanish Inner Colonisation â€“ a large-scale agricultural reform and land settlement program of the central decades of the 20th century â€“ new towns were built in the middle of the arid areas that were going to be transformed into irrigated lands. Their names and locations were announced in the Official State Gazette together with their proposed locations. The system employed to address their positions in the wastelands was based on the road network: it involved the distances to the nearest roads, and the specification of the kilometric milestones concerned. 
This paper proposes to analyse the positioning system in relation to one of the most salient features of this Spanish program: the use of the so-called cart-module to distribute the settlement towns. These were arranged in constellations so that each piece of land could be addressed through a walking distance from the closest town. Taking into account also the role of the authoritarian State, present in the technical management of the irrigation systems, the agriculture put into work will be analysed as a vertical practice. 
This paper will consider these operations from what social anthropologist Penelope Harvey has pointed out as the topological quality of infrastructural spaces, where space is apprehended in relation to the effects of a calculating framework. The material transformation of this topological zoning through irrigation, finally, will be examined in relation to Lisa Parksâ€™ critical infrastructure notion of satellite footprints and signal territories.
CityCenter, Las Vegas: 'De-Theming' in the Neoliberal City
Authors: Kraler Kurt
Published: November 2024

The opening of CityCenter, Las Vegas in 2009 marked the single largest privately funded?development in American history. The sprawling resort campus signalled a departure from all-encompassing themes of kitsch that had long defined the Las Vegas Strip, obfuscating the threshold between public and private. It is indicative of the broader push for deregulation and monopolization that are characteristic of neoliberal processes. This raises pertinent questions around the implications of the apparent ‘de-theming’ of these leisure environments and the wider normalization of neoliberal principles in architecture and urbanism. The seminal Learning from Las Vegas identified the merging of sign and building alongside the widespread adoption of neoliberal ideology, where the roadside sign advanced from “decorated shed” to “duck” to atmospheres and, eventually, urbanism. Employing Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concepts of “de-territorialization” and “re-territorialization,” this process of de-theming can be theorized as the reconfiguration of leisure as the totalizing image of gentrification and urban renewal.
Through an examination of the overlapping histories of organized crime, federal funding, migration, class struggle, and an entrenched regional military presence, Las Vegas can be understood as a city undergoing constant flux. The Las Vegas Neon Museum has become an important indexological catalogue of signage from lost buildings, attempting to preserve the collective memory of Las Vegas while reinforcing the prominence of the image within the American commercial vernacular.
Memory Expurgation? Cairo: A Comment on Photographs
Authors: Abaza Mona
Published: November 2024

This short piece is a commentary on photographs taken in Cairo between 2011 and 2013. The country is currently experiencing a pervasive moment of erasure on the collective level, going hand in hand with a hard counter-revolutionary momentum. In this context, gazing at photographs might be an exercise in an â€˜inner exilicâ€™ form of remembrance. This article attempts to evoke snapshots of the performative street, while trying to reflect on the nostalgic sentiment that is omnipresent among various opposing camps to a degree that has not been seen before.
Anthropocene Elegy and GeoSpatial Presence
Authors: Dovey Jon , Speakman Duncan
Published: November 2024

Drawing from our collaboration on an AHRC funded research project, this essay will look at the production and reception of an artwork and offer an account of the tension in the work between the â€œauthoredâ€ time line, the userâ€™s temporal experience and the impact of mediated time on that experience. The artwork itself utilises a combination of pre-recorded audio, geo-locative technology and printed material to create an urban walking experience. The route is not pre-determined, but is created uniquely each time by a participating audience member in response to thematic and reflective provocations. Locations they are invited to choose while walking become part of their internal memory map of the city, while the GPS co-ordinates are stored by a mobile device. In the second half of the experience, the walker retraces their steps, layering their own experiential memory within media triggered by the stored locations. The audio and written material in the piece was collected from regions around the world at risk of disappearing. These include emptying Latvian villages, the sinking wetlands of Louisiana and the rising edge of the Tunisian Sahara. A particular affect of critical awareness of planetary presence is produced as an event at the interface of the spatial and temporal elements that compose it.
A Manifesto for Media in a Warming World
Authors: Morris Hanna E.
Published: November 2024

Global warming is popularly visualized as distant, immaterial and abstract. Images of polar bears and melting icebergs paint climate change as a de-humanized and irrelevant phenomenon. But global warming is anything but irrelevant â€“ it is a very real, very tangible and very material present reality â€œstuckâ€ to each and every one of us. Global warming is a physical act of unresolved imperial violence â€“ with a disproportionate degree of impact on the â€œformerlyâ€ colonized world. And yet, this violence often goes unnoted. A visual intervention is required. In my manifesto, I propose a set of three intercessions for the mediation of global warming. I argue that global warming should be mediated as: (1) Situated and Intimate, (2) Transhistorical Trauma of Imperial Modernity and (3) Uncanny Undulation. Mediations must overwhelm, disturb and break the binaries of self and other, seen and unseen, here and there, now and then. Recognition and resolution of the material consequences of global warming will not occur otherwise.
Media Theory, Public Relevance and the Propaganda Model Today
Authors: Klaehn Jeffery , Broudy Daniel , Fuchs Christian , Godler Yigal , Zollmann Florian , Chomsky Noam , Pedro-Caranana Joan , Mills Tom , Boyd-Barrett Oliver
Published: November 2024

Since its initial formulation in 1988, the Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model (PM) has become one of the most widely tested models of media performance in the social sciences. This is largely due to the combined efforts of a loose group of international scholars as well as an increasing number of students who have produced studies in the US, UK, Canadian, Australian, Japanese, Chinese, German, and Dutch contexts, amongst others. Yet, the PM has also been marginalised in media and communication scholarship, largely due to the fact that the PMâ€™s radical scholarly outlook challenges the liberal and conservative underpinnings of mainstream schools of thought in capitalist democracies. This paper brings together, for the first time, leading scholars to discuss important questions pertaining to the PMâ€™s origins, public relevance, connections to other approaches within Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, applicability in the social media age, as well as impact and influence. The paper aligns with the 30th anniversary of the PM and the publication of the collected volume, The Propaganda Model Today, and highlights the PMâ€™s continued relevance at a time of unprecedented corporate consolidation of the media, extreme levels of inequality and class conflict as well as emergence of new forms of authoritarianism.
Media, Power and the Origins of the Propaganda Model: An Interview with Edward S. Herman
Authors: Klaehn Jeffery
Published: November 2024

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model (PM) and the publication of the collected volume, The Propaganda Model Today, this article re-presents an interview with Edward S. Herman that was originally published with Fifth Estate Online in 2008. The interview explored the origins of the PM, common criticisms of the PM, ways in which the PM was updated during the first two decades after it was initially introduced, and whether the PM can and should be applied to other media (such as television news, talk radio, the internet, popular films, pop music and music videos, and comic books).  The interview questions have been edited and abbreviated from the original, and a bibliography has been added which directs readers to works which have explored (and will explore) topics and issues discussed within the interview.
Drone Film Theory: The Immanentisation of Kinocentrism
Authors: Campbell Robert
Published: November 2024

This essay looks at the role of drones in contemporary culture, including cinema. It suggests that drones are the latest in a long line of media that involve the physical separation of humans from the world and from each other, a logic of separation that intersects with military and entertainment interests. In this way, the drone signals the simultaneous and interlinked cinematisation (or kinocentrism) and militarisation of society. Looking from a distance and fighting from a distance, as combined in the drone, not only have a militaristic purpose; they also serve to render god-like the unseen and unquestionable operator of the drone (and the viewer of images). This becoming god-like can also be seen in the conquest of time, as the never-ending and real-time demands of permanent surveillance, permanent war and permanent work all relegate other times (for example, peace and leisure) into unreality; the permanent now of media, war and capital is the only perceived â€˜realâ€™ time. As humans via separation become media, so, too, do media become more like humans. The essay ends, then, with a â€˜weirdâ€™ suggestion that drones constitute a â€˜sky-netâ€™ that signals an imminent technological singularity.
The Hyperdodge: How Users Resist Algorithmic Objects in Everyday Life
Authors: Witzenberger Kevin
Published: November 2024

This paper asks what we can learn if we research algorithms via a bottom-up methodology from a usersâ€™ perspective to see how everyday users can resist algorithmic objectives. In doing this, this paper theorizes the framework of agency in which users can shape and reshape algorithmic outcomes. The argument draws on theoretical knowledge grounded in empirical data produced in 10 in-depth interviews, Heideggerâ€™s phenomenology of experience, and De Certeauâ€™s notion of practices in everyday life. It explains how the phenomenology of experience can render algorithms visible for users by asking not what algorithms are, but by reflecting upon their meaning and how these reflections can transform into practices of everyday resistance. Finally, this article speculates about the potential implications of (meta-)data on machine learning that is purposely being manipulated by users, creating the possibility of what I am labelling a â€œhyperdodgeâ€.
The Art of Tokenization: Blockchain Affordances and the Invention of Future Milieus
Authors: Lotti Laura
Published: November 2024

Ten years after the introduction of the Bitcoin protocol, an increasing number of art-tech startups and more or less independent initiatives have begun to explore second-generation blockchains such as Ethereum and the emergent practice of tokenization (i.e., the issuance of new cryptoassets primarily to self-fund decentralized projects) as a means to intervene in the structures and processes underlying the rampant financialization of art. Yet amidst the volatility of the cryptocurrency market, tokenization has been critiqued as a way to reinscribe and proliferate current financial logics in this new space. Acknowledging such critiques, in this essay I foreground the novelty of cryptotokens and blockchains by exploring different examples of how tokenization has been deployed in the art market-milieu. In spite of recent attempts to extend the scarcity-based paradigm to blockchains, I argue that cryptotokens do introduce differences in kind in the ways in which value generation and distribution are expressed and accounted for in digital environments. In this context, artistic approaches to tokenization can illuminate new aspects of the affordances of these technologies, toward the disintermediation of art production and its networked value from the current institutional-financial milieu. This can open up new ways to reimagine and reprogram financial and social relations, and gesture toward new opportunities and challenges for a practice of digital design focused on the ideation and realization of cryptoeconomic systems.
Rethinking while Redoing: Tactical Affordances of Assistive Technologies in Photography by the Visually Impaired
Authors: Grundell Vendela
Published: November 2024

This article addresses ableism in 21st century netÂ­work society by analysing affordÂ­ances in the practices of visually impaired photographers. The case study details how these photoÂ­graphers use assistive deÂ­vices, tweaking affordÂ­ances of both these devices and the photoÂ­graphic apparatus: its techÂ­nical materialities, cultural conceptÂ­ualÂ­izations and creative exÂ­pressions. The main argument is that affordances operate in exÂ­changes where sharing differÂ­ences is key; visually imÂ­paired photoÂ­graphers make differÂ­Â­ences sharable through images, revealing vulnerÂ­abilities that emerge within a socio-digital condition that affects users across a spectrum of abiliÂ­ties. The argument unfolds through a rare combination of affordance theory about imaginative and diÂ­verse human-technology reÂ­laÂ­tions, media theory about technological deÂ­penÂ­dÂ­ence and disÂ­Â­ruption, disability studies on normÂ­Â­aÂ­tivity and variÂ­ation, and art histoÂ­rical readÂ­ings informed by semiotics and phenoÂ­menÂ­oÂ­logy. The article conÂ­tributes to cross-disciplinary research by demonÂ­strating that affordances can be tactical, inÂ­terÂ­vening in pervasive socio-digital systems that limit who counts as a normal user.
Destituting the Interface: Beyond Affordance and Determination
Authors: Andreasen Torsten
Published: November 2024

This article proposes the affordance of the medium and the determination of the dispositif as two distinct approaches to media or technology in general. Taking the dialectical tension between affordance and determination, between medium and dispositif, as its point of departure, the article explores Transmute Collectiveâ€™s Intimate Transactions (2005) as a problematic fusion of the two approaches. A historicising re-reading of Guy Debordâ€™s Society of the Spectacle with regard to current forms of digital control and modes of production then argues that contemporary alienation takes place within the digital interface as the zone of indistinction between affordance and determination, and that instead of designing liberating machines or inventing subjective evasions of the dispositif, emancipatory engagement requires a destitution of the interface.
The Museum of Light and the Epoch of Disappearance
Authors: Phillips John W.P.
Published: November 2024

The bleak announcement to Paul Virilio’s La vitesse de libération [Open Sky, 1997] forecasts a final dawn: “one day the day will come when the day won’t come” (1997: iii). The motif of the dawn in Virilio’s writing brings his focus to bear on the phenomena of rapid transport and electronic transmission technologies as they come to reproduce and in principle to replace the spatial and temporal environment of bodies illuminated by solar optics. In this article, I raise a question concerning the experiential sphere of morality, consciousness and community in Virilio’s explanation of an epoch increasingly dominated by these technologies. If Virilio is correct, we are in a transition towards the final epoch of humanity, governed by a quasi-theological media environment, and characterised by an experience of disappearance that was entirely novel to the twentieth century. The article assesses Virilio’s account of the paradoxical emergence from the ruins of the urban architecture of a city characterised by the phenomena of disappearance and substitution: a city that functions as the museum of the phenomena it supplants.
Virilio and Total Thought
Authors: Cubitt Sean
Published: November 2024

This note traces the development of Virilio’s ecological thought from the early Popular Defense and Ecological Struggles into his late writing in The University of Disaster to see how his talismanic concepts increased in resolution and angle of vision over the transition from the later 20th to the early 21st centuries.
Socio-Political Figurations of Our Digital Everyday: Reflecting on Virilio’s Notions of Dromology, Civilianisation of Military Technologies, and the Information Bomb
Authors: Kuntsman Adi
Published: November 2024

The essay is a meditation on Paul Virilio’s legacy and its relevance today, focusing specifically on accelerated time; civilianisation of military technologies, and the information bomb. The author discusses the complex and unevenly distributed effects of the digital era, raising a set of questions, such as: Whose time is accelerating? What happens when everyday culture is militarised, while military technologies are civilianised? How does the information bomb explode beyond the visual?  Reflecting on the prophetic character of Virilio’s theorising, the author argues that in the days of platform labour, disappearing job stability, as well as mass imprisonments and growing precarity, we need new ways of thinking about the right to time, and about the slow violence of both acceleration and timelessness. In the days of “smart” warfare, digitally-operated borders, biometric surveillance, as well as of global spectacles of “real life” killing and dying we need to fundamentally rethink the meaning of “civilianised” and “militarised”. In the days of massive celebration of AI, smart technologies and the overall digitisation, we need to envision new forms of (data) justice, to live in the aftermath of the exploded information bomb and its fire that continues burning.
Aesthetics within Media Inquiry
Authors: Corner John
Published: November 2024

In this note of commentary, I want briefly to reflect on how questions concerning aesthetics variously figure, lie just below the surface or are simply ignored across the increasingly diverse academic approaches to investigating media. This is in a situation in which the array of activities and practices under the heading ‘media’ is undergoing steady expansion, as is the spectrum of ideas, approaches and objectives informing study. Better cross-connection, first of all between studies variously addressing aesthetic issues and then between these and the many approaches currently placing them as marginal could, it is argued, be a productive intellectual development, bringing increased understanding of the relations between media forms, social feeling and social imagination.
‘Alternative Ways of Being’: Reimagining Locative Media Materiality through Speculative Fiction and Design
Authors: Leorke Dale , Wood Chris
Published: November 2024

Following the ‘material turn’ in media studies and a growing intersection with posthuman philosophies, theorists and practitioners in the field of ‘locative media’ have recently sought to make more explicit and visible the underlying material infrastructure and processes of location-aware technologies. These approaches, we argue, concentrate on two, interrelated layers of locative media materiality: the ‘infrastructure’ itself and its socio-political consequences; and the material relations between human and non-human elements that act upon one another to create the ‘performance’ of locative media. These approaches offer a vital and necessary challenge to the predominantly human- and user-centric focus of existing locative media studies. To date, however, they have been focused on rendering visible the infrastructure and performance of locative media as it presently exists; and still remain centred around the human body as the site and metaphor for understanding this materiality. In this paper, we further complicate this human centricity around the infrastructural and performative layers of locative media to challenge and reimagine the role of the human in locative media art and practice. Drawing on the traditions of speculative fiction and design, we propose fiction, design, and world-building as methods for developing imaginaries and alternative futures that expand the potential for locative media to be reframed from a non-human centric perspective. Such an approach emphasises creativity and imagination, in addition to purely empirical knowledge of locative technologies and processes; and allows for a more speculative, playful, and questioning approach to this materiality, taking into account not only ‘what is’ but also ‘what could be’. Through a discussion of two experimental projects undertaken by one of the authors of this paper, we advocate opening up locative media studies to encompass speculation about its alternative and future potentialities.
Anti-Bourgeois Theory
Authors: Hall Gary
Published: November 2024

In his celebrated 2009 memoir Returning to Reims, the Parisian intellectual and theorist Didier Eribon travels home for the first time in thirty years following the death of his father. There he tries to account for the change in politics of his working class family over the period he has been away: from supporting the Communist Party to voting for the National Front. But Eribon also discusses the transition he himself has undergone as a result of having escaped his working class culture and environment through education, and how this has left him unsure whom it is he is actually writing for. He may be addressing the question of what it means to grow up poor and gay, however he is aware few working class people are ever likely to read his book.
 
At the same time, Eribon emphasizes that his non-conforming identity has left him with a sense of just how important it is to display a ‘lack of respect for the rules’ of bourgeois liberal humanist ‘decorum that reign in university circles’, and that insist ‘people follow established norms regarding “intellectual debate” when what is at stake clearly has to do with political struggle’. Together with his friend Édouard Louis and partner Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Eribon wants to ‘rethink’ the antihumanist theoretical tradition of Foucault, Derrida, Cixous et al. to produce a theory ‘in which something is at stake’: a theory that speaks about ‘class, exploitation, violence, repression, domination, intersectionality’, and yet has the potential to generate the same kind of power and excitement as ‘a Kendrick Lamar concert’.
 
With ‘Anti-Bourgeois Theory’, I likewise want to reinvent what it means to theorise by showing a certain lack of respect for the rules of bourgeois decorum the university hardly ever questions. I want do so, however, by also breaking with those bourgeois liberal humanist conventions of intellectual debate that – for all his emphasis on rebelling ‘in and through’ the technologies of knowledge production – continue to govern the antihumanist theoretical tradition Eribon and his collaborators are associated with. Included in these conventions are culturally normative ideas of the human subject, the proprietorial author, the codex print book, critical reflection, linear thought, the long-form argument, self-expression, originality, creativity, fixity and copyright. I will argue that even the current landfill of theoretical literature on the posthuman and the Anthropocene is merely a form of bourgeois liberal humanism that is padded with nonhuman stuffing – technologies, objects, animals, insects, plants, fungi, compost, microbes, stones, geological formations – to make it appear different. Can we not do better than this?
A Promethean Philosophy of External Technologies, Empiricism, & the Concept
Authors: Erkan Ekin
Published: November 2024

Beginning with a survey of the shortcoming of theories of organology/media-as-externalization of mind/body—a philosophical-anthropological tradition that stretches from Plato through Ernst Kapp and finds its contemporary proponent in Bernard Stiegler—I propose that the phenomenological treatment of media as an outpouching and extension of mind qua intentionality is not sufficient to counter the ‘black-box’ mystification of today’s deep learning’s algorithms. Focusing on a close study of Simondon’s On the Existence of Technical Objects and Individuation, I argue that the process-philosophical work of Gilbert Simondon, with its critique of Norbert Wiener’s first-order cybernetics, offers a precursor to the conception of second-order cybernetics (as endorsed by Francisco Varela, Humberto Maturana, and Ricardo B. Uribe) and, specifically, its autopoietic treatment of information. It has been argued by those such as Frank Pasquale that neuro-inferential deep learning systems premised on predictive patterning, such as AlphaGo Zero, have a veiled logic and, thus, are ‘black boxes’. In detailing a philosophical-historical approach to demystify predictive patterning/processing and the logic of such deep learning algorithms, this paper attempts to shine a light on such systems and their inner workings à la Simondon.
Telepresence Enclosure
Authors: Roquet Paul
Published: November 2024

Virtual reality proponents often promise the technology will allow a more fully embodied sense of presence at a distance, or what researchers have called ‘telepresence.’ Departing from telepresence’s original focus on providing access to dangerous environments, VR and robotics researchers in Japan now promote everyday service and factory work via telerobots as a solution to the country’s rapidly shrinking workforce. Telepresence becomes a way to access the physical labor of the elderly, persons with disabilities, and foreign workers, while at the same time keeping them fixed in place at home or behind closed borders. This essay theorizes the perceptual segregation imposed by these immersive labor platforms as a form of telepresence enclosure: the mediated privatization of presence itself. If VR continues on its current trajectory, the telepresence enclosure is poised to enable technologically advanced countries to extract the physical labor of marginalized populations at home and abroad, while at the same time ensuring these workers remain excluded from a more fully embodied social mobility.
Parameters of Media Engagement
Authors: Dahlgren Peter , Hill Annette
Published: November 2024

Engagement is a tricky term to pin down, shifting meaning in the media industries, across political communication and within popular culture. But the definition of engagement matters, as new currencies circulate in academic and industry discourses. The argument put forward here is that media engagement is a term that has been used in a strategic way within the media industries to capture social media analytics and ratings performance, thus instrumentally using a reductive meaning of engagement as a measurement of interest. We argue for a new definition of the term as an energising internal force; engagement is a subjective experience, protean in character, driven by affect yet always retaining some elements of rationality. We theorize media engagement as linking the personal, the socio-cultural, and the political, and these elements serve as a horizon in the parameters of media engagement. A matrix of five parameters offers a model for analysing engagement in relation to media contexts, motivations, modalities, intensities, and consequences. The parameters of media engagement highlight the trajectories of engagement, including the build up to engagement, the moment and place of engagement itself, and also what happens beyond engagement, such as participation and social activism, or fan production and user generated content. This way of conceptualising and contextualising media engagement offers analytic purchase for empirical research and reflexive theorisation that is attentive to the nexus of relations at the heart of engagement. We illustrate the empirical utility of this theoretical trajectory with an example from professional wrestling and populism. In such a way, media engagement can be a useful analytic term to map and understand how and why engagement matters to people in the context of political and cultural spheres.
Figurations of Timely Extraction
Authors: Pritchard Helen , Rocha Jara , Snelting Femke
Published: November 2024

During recent years, geocomputation has become increasingly entangled with so-called 4D visualization. The contemporary infrastructure of fossil fuel extraction depends on these software tools for geological data handling, interpretation and modelling of subterranea. This paper makes use of the contaminated and contaminating practice of figuration to plot stories that highlight some of the milestones of deadly collaboration, of optimised acceleration, and of sedimented damage. It engages with three figurations of timely extraction (Consortium, Borehole and Amalgam), to tell stories that provide a way to make present the time-space complexities that emerge from the connections between extractivism, computation and semiotic-material values. The Underground Division studies those rocky figurations to expose some of their interdependent articulations such as transnational alliances, gold mining and geocomputation and how they shape life/non-life temporalities. We argue that the dynamic crossings of time and matter that Consortium, Borehole and Amalgam are embedded in establish a dynamics of repeated damage, via latent regimes which maintain extractive forces, practices and modes. We amalgamate the clock time of turbo-computing with the megaannums at the timeline of digitally mediated rocks to present agential combinations of exclusion and occlusion that each create unique modes of discrimination and privilege.
Im/possible Boredom: Rethinking the Present of the Gamer Subject
Authors: Liu Xin
Published: November 2024

Mobile games downloads have witnessed a surge during the covid-19 lockdown. Gaming is said to provide a much-needed distraction from the crisis whose intensity is felt as shrunk space and paused time. This article concerns the seemingly contradictory modes of attention – bored/disengaged and intensely engaged – during the covid-19 pandemic. It rethinks the relation between boredom and care by zooming in on the present of the gamer subject. Drawing on feminist theorizations of care and time, critical game studies as well as theorizations of boredom, especially in the context of digital games, this article analyses a hyper-casual game called Helix Jump and rereads the temporality of the covid-19 narrative in China through the logic of digital gaming. It suggests that boredom should be understood as an im/possibility, that is not antithetical to, but an expression of the as-well-as-possibleness of care.
Distracted Present, Golden Past?
Authors: Paasonen Susanna
Published: November 2024

According to diverse recurrent cultural diagnoses, networked media is atrophying our affective, cognitive and somatic capacities through its distracting, rapid speeds. Echoing critiques of modernity and media technology voiced since the mid-nineteenth century, these accounts are broadly premised on loss in arguing that a general disenchantment is hollowing out our sociability and personal experiences alike. Building on Jane Bennett’s critique of the modern narrative of disenchantment, this article explores ambiguity as a means of resisting totalising accounts of the present, as well as for accounting for the affective complexities involved in our engagements with devices, apps and platforms as these yield different rhythms and experiential horizons of possibility. In doing so, it asks what kinds of figures of the past narratives of loss evoke and what social hierarchies and contextual nuances are effaced when sketching out the mediated present.
Bring the Noise
Authors: Wolfe Cary
Published: November 2024

Originally published as ‘Introduction to the New Edition. Bring the Noise: The Parasite and the Multiple Genealogies of Posthumanism’ in Michel Serres’s The Parasite (2007), trans. Lawrence R. Schehr. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Reproduced with kind permission from the author and University of Minnesota Press: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-parasite