J.D. Lasica: Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing (2009)

Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet’s impact on business, governance and social interaction examines the migration of information, software and identity into the Cloud and explores the transformative possibilities of this new computing paradigm for culture, commerce, and personal communication. The report also considers potential consequences for privacy, governance and security, and it includes policy recommendations and advice for the new presidential administration. Written by J.D. Lasica, the report is the result of the Seventeenth Annual Roundtable on Information Technology.

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Theodor W. Adorno: Negative Dialectics (1966-) [DE, EN, PT]

“Theodor Adorno was one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Negative Dialectics is his major and culminating work. In it he attempts to free critical thought from the blinding orthodoxies of late capitalism, and earlier ages too. The book is essential reading for students of Adorno. It is also a vital weapon for making sense of modern times.”

German edition
Publisher Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1966
414 pages

English edition
Translation by E.B.Ashton
First published by Seabury Press, New York, 1973
Publisher Taylor & Francis, 2004
ISBN 0415052211, 9780415052214
416 pages
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English edition
Translation by Dennis Redmond
undated
translator

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Negative Dialektik (German, 1966, 8 MB, updated on 2016-12-23)
Negative Dialectics (English, trans. Ashton, 1973/2004, updated on 2013-6-11)
Negative Dialectics (English, trans. Redmond, updated on 2013-6-11)
Negative Dialectics (English, updated translation by Redmond with commentary, 2001, TXT)
Dialética negativa‎ (Portuguese, trans. Marco Antonio Casanova, 2009, 12 MB, added on 2013-8-10)

Lisa Nakamura: Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (2007)

In the nineties, neoliberalism simultaneously provided the context for the Internet’s rapid uptake in the United States and discouraged public conversations about racial politics. At the same time many scholars lauded the widespread use of text-driven interfaces as a solution to the problem of racial intolerance. Today’s online world is witnessing text-driven interfaces such as e-mail and instant messaging giving way to far more visually intensive and commercially driven media forms that not only reveal but showcase people’s racial, ethnic, and gender identity.

Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, uses case studies of popular yet rarely examined uses of the Internet such as pregnancy Web sites, instant messaging, and online petitions and quizzes to look at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures.

While popular media such as Hollywood cinema continue to depict nonwhite nonmales as passive audiences or consumers of digital media rather than as producers, Nakamura argues the contrary—with examples ranging from Jennifer Lopez music videos; films including the Matrix trilogy, Gattaca, and Minority Report; and online joke sites—that users of color and women use the Internet to vigorously articulate their own types of virtual community, avatar bodies, and racial politics.

Publisher U of Minnesota Press, 2007
ISBN 0816646139, 9780816646135
248 pages

Keywords and phrases
Asian American, visual culture, avatars, Internet, digital signatures, buddy icons, Minority Report, racial formation, African Americans, codetalkers, cyberpunk, Matrix trilogy, Details magazine, Jennifer Lopez, digital divide, posthuman, racial project, racism, However, Agent Smith

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