Archive: 2014
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Journal 2014
Gnovis Journal 2014
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ART IS NOT ENOUGH: The Artist’s Body as Protest
ABSTRACT Distinguishing between imagerial and material media, this paper will examine specific works by the artists David Wojnarowicz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ray Navarro, and Barton Lidicé Beneš that ex
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Human Control and Autonomy in Cybernetic Systems
Abstract This paper is meant to question the idea that humans in cybernetic systems are autonomous in the traditional western liberal conception. Examination of the history of cybernetics reveals conf
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Freedom v. The Man: Security, Torture, and “Freedom” in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother
Abstract Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is more than just a sci-fi story about computer hackers. This paper is an attempt to identify the poor ethics of privacy at work in the book, and offer some al
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Innovation on the Danube and Loyalty in the Habsburg Empire
Abstract The Habsburg dynasty ruled over an empire, which from 1815 until its collapse in 1918 encompassed much of modern-day Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovi
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Spring 2014 Editor's Note
After a long winter it’s finally spring again in Washington, D.C. That means the cherry blossoms are blooming, tourists are swarming the monuments, and the city is once again vibrating with the energ
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To My Beloved, BB4N: The history of “woman’s writing”, or the epistolary novel
View PDF version of The History of the Epistolary Novel here. Abstract A series of memorandums on the epistolary novel as established in the 1700s and its development in the modern age with the inclus
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Looking at connections between innovation and sport: How sporting cultures identify and manage new technologies
View a PDF version of this article here. Abstract The contemporary public perception of sport as heavily regulated by sets of established rules, thanks in part to popular media coverage of binding exp