The home is a physical place that provides isolation, comfort, access to essential needs on a daily basis, and it has a strong impact on a person’s life. Computational and media technologies (digital and electronic objects, devices, protocols, virtual spaces, telematics, interac…
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Siborg kavramına ilişkin tanımlamaların ve ilk çalışmaların, bilimsel literatürde ve sanat alanında kendisine yer edinmeye başladığı dönemler, tarihsel olarak yakınlık göstermektedir. Canlı organizmanın sibernetik bir sistem olarak kabul edilmesiyle başlayan bilimsel araştırma s…
This dissertation elucidates the cybernetic response to the life question of post-World War II biology through an analysis of the writings and experiments of Warren S. McCulloch. The work of McCulloch, who was both a clinician and neurophysiologist, gave rise to what this disser…
The interface and interchange between humans and machines are investigated in this dissertation as a boundary limed by the onto-epistemology of antiblack racism since the turn of the nineteenth century. By framing the nineteenth century plantation as a machine template for the i…
Building on a growing body of literature that seeks to critically reframe the cultural, social, and technical foundations of the contemporary information society, and drawing in particular on those who consider how the politics of race shape the production of technoscientific kn…
This dissertation explores the concepts of “hegemony” and “utopianism” in the conceptualization of a “technopole” in a Southeast Asian state. I describe how “cybernetics” flow transculturally and is inscribed onto human consciousness as illustrated in the case of Malaysia's gran…
This dissertation examines the historical context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century neurophysiological ideas and experiments. It uses archival records and correspondence, primary scientific literature, and secondary materials to explain and interpret the origins of contempora…
During the digital tide of the last several decades, the material, metaphysical and economic properties of art have evolved in response to the ever-accelerating growth of cybernetics. The contemporary art ecosystem (CAE) has long been considered “the last unregulated financial m…
Novels That Enact: Capitalist Storification and Emerging Forms in Contemporary Fiction examines the contemporary novel form in relation to major historical transformations of managerialism and cybernetics since the 1950s. Tracing the metamorphosis of cybernetics from a war-time …
Big data is much discussed in business, government, and healthcare, but the ascendance of the data-driven approach has consequences beyond these areas, detectable in both discourse and cultural practices such as self-quantification. The questions explored in this work, “Can the …
My dissertation project focuses on the history of cybernetics and aesthetics as a key site for the comparative study of cultural exchange between Arabic and American cultures. I argue that the emergence of cybernetics in the post-WWII era provided an infrastructure for a synthes…
“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction” (Haraway, 1985: 1). In the age of the Anthropocene we find ourselves on a cyborg planet, an entity with both biological with physical and technolo…
This thesis presents the findings from two case study examinations of strategic performance measurement systems within two turbulent environmental contexts: the U.S. security software industry and the U.S. health care industry. Despite a three-‐decade emphasis on performance me…
This dissertation project is a media archaeological inquiry into a long-term cultural dialectic between the rise of intelligent automata and the rise of Western discourses of Orientalism. I organize my analysis around the archetypal theme of the chess-playing machine, the Mechan…