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Who and what renders this image meaningful |
Science at particular historical moment and media and Art and gender politics |
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Hippocratic Corpus |
Medical skills involve techno, art or craft, particularly drawing |
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Foucault |
Looking inside body becomes privileged form of medical knowledge in a Enlightenment |
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Positivism |
Means valid truth comes from sensory experience. Positivism I’m photography means mechanical instruments enhance our access to empirical truths, eliminating human error and subjective impressions. |
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Black-boxed |
An instrument built so user can’t see inside. Problems with Positivist approach to photography. |
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Refined physiognomy |
An interpretation of outward appearances and configuration of body. Especially face, to categorize groups of people. |
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Biopower |
Techniques used to subjugate the body and control populations by targeting biological features (351) |
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Contemporary biometric technologies |
Use biological and genetic markers to identify people. It can be unreliable as 19 C techniques. When used for racial profiling, supports assumed Lin between racial or ethnic identity and moral tendencies (356) |
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Cyborg |
Cybernetic organism is part technology and part organism. |
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Morphing |
A computer imaging process by which one image is superimposed onto another, creating a third image that is a combination or blend of the two. |