From the Publisher: 
A Question of Identity 
Life on the Screen is a fascinating and wide-ranging investigation of the impact of computers and networking on society, peoples' perceptions of themselves, and the individual's relationship to machines. Sherry Turkle, a Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a licensed psychologist, uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, "bots," virtual reality, and "the on-line way of life." 
Turkle's discussion of postmodernism is particularly enlightening. She shows how postmodern concepts in art, architecture, and ethics are related to concrete topics much closer to home, for example AI research (Minsky's "Society of Mind") and even MUDs (exemplified by students with X-window terminals who are doing homework in one window and simultaneously playing out several different roles in the same MUD in other windows). Those of you who have (like me) been turned off by the shallow, pretentious, meaningless paintings and sculptures that litter our museums of modern art may have a different perspective after hearing what Turkle has to say. 
This is a psychoanalytical book, not a technical one. However, software developers and engineers will find it highly accessible because of the depth of the author's technical understanding and credibility. Unlike most other authors in this genre, Turkle does not constantly jar the technically-literate reader with blatant errors or bogus assertions about how things work. Although I personally don't have time or patience for MUDs,view most of AI as snake-oil, and abhor postmodern architecture, I thought the time spent reading this book was an extremely good investment.

스크린 위의 삶 = Life on the screen : identity in the age of the internet

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

The Reality of the Mass Media

https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lesprit_createur/v042/42.4.benstock.pdf

Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (review)

Discussions about MALDI imaging frequently turn to the topic of spatial resolution and the eff orts of some researchers in the field to push towards routine imaging of tissue sections at a cellular scale. Some factors that limit resolution are, the size of the focused desorption laser beam and analyte delocalization from the solution-based sample preparation. With solvent-free matrix application techniques analyte delocalization is less of a concern and the size of the focused laser is the major limiter of spatial resolution. In the Special Feature, Professor Caprioli and co-workers at Vanderbilt University demonstrate a new instrumental approach for improving spatial resolution. They have modifi ed a MALDI-TOF system to use transmission-mode geometry, in which the desorption laser is focused onto the matrix crystals from behind and through the target and sample rather than conventional front-side illumination where the laser is focused onto the crystals directly. They show that by moving the laser source behind the sample target, they can optimize the laser focus to achieve cellular resolution for MALDI imaging.

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Direct imaging of single cells and tissue at sub-cellular spatial resolution using transmission geometry MALDI MS

From photoblogs to cell phone cameras, digital technology is rapidly and fundamentally changing the cultural practice of photographic representation. At the same time, the remediation of photography, in both technical and cultural modes, is occurring in the digital game. Although conventions surrounding “the camera” have commonly played a role in some game genres, with increased frequency a more literal transposition of the photograph is making its way into the game: from x-treme stunt photography to the shift of the role of photographer from narrative context to play dynamic. How and why is the practice of photography now being performed virtually in the digital game? What does this redundancy teach us about both the cultural role of photography and the evolving medium of the digital game?

Point and Shoot: Remediating Photography in Gamespace

This paper explores the problem space of forbidden games: games not only on the border of games and reality, but explicitly referencing the double-coded nature of that boundary—in other words, games that use their status as “only a game” as a strategic gesture. It asks three key questions: what does it mean to be a forbidden or “brink” game, what is the function of these works, and, perhaps most importantly, to what extent do they have critical potential. To answer these questions, a methodological approach is drawn from functional systems theory, as read primarily through the work of Niklas Luhmann. Through this approach, I demonstrate the importance of these games in relation to the separation of games and reality, and suggest the strength of such works lies in their ability to both observe and critique everyday life. Author Keywords

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Critical potential on the brink of the magic circle

One of the more interesting and distinct aspects of digital games is the proliferation of player produced artifacts. The reworking of original game materials is an integral part of game culture that cannot be ignored in the study of these games. This paper explores player authorship in digital games through the rhetoric of select peace-themed game modifications.

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Patches of Peace: Tiny Signs of Agency in Digital Games

This paper uses two game-based artworks by Mary Flanagan (primarily [domestic] and to a lesser extent [rootings]), to examine autobiography in the form of digital games Specifically, it explores the ways in which these games construct/represent subjectivity, how they negotiate agency (both within the work and within the realm of cultural production), and how the game form structures selfnarrative This is framed in relation to theoretical work from both autobiography and game studies

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Play with me: Exploring the autobiographical through digital games

The LEGO® MindStorms™ Robotics Invention System is
increasingly used by adults for both serious prototyping
and creative play. What is particularly interesting about the
MindStorms™ system is that it offers women the
opportunity to participate in an embodied computing
environment that supports women-friendly programming
concepts such as Constructionism and bricolage. So where
are the female hobbyists and artists? This paper argues for
the development of a feminine/feminist MindStorms™
robotics practice that subverts the male agency of the
product and creates a dialogue surrounding women and
robotic play. Using a toy for expression and discourse is a
political act: a reclaiming of play time and space for
women, and an affirmation of a programming style that
rejects dualisms and situates women in the programming
experience. This paper will argue the mechanics and
cultural space surrounding the MindStorms™ system make
it a particularly interesting subject for theorizing and
encouraging discourse surrounding women’s relationships
to robotics and play. It also presents several ongoing
projects by the author that explore the idea of subverting
the cultural space surrounding MindStorms™ robotics.

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Cindy Poremba

Papers

Point and Shoot: Remediating Photography in Gamespace

Critical potential on the brink of the magic circle

Patches of Peace: Tiny Signs of Agency in Digital Games

Play with me: Exploring the autobiographical through digital games

Beyond boy’s toys: Women, play and Mindstorms™ Robotics