Bayla Singer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bayla Singer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bayla |
| FAMILY NAME | Singer |
| SIGNATURE | SINGER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Path Not Taken
Aircraft (review)
Reviewed by: Aircraft Bayla Singer (bio) Aircraft. By David Pascoe. London: Reaktion Books, 2003. Pp. 240. $19.95. Technology and culture are intimately intertwined in this book, beginning on the cover where the hungry maw of a jet engine seems to press forward with the intensity of an Andrew Wyeth image. The title itself is chosen to evoke Le Corbusier's 1935 work of the same name; Le Corbusier, more than any other single artist, is frequently r…
Beyond the Image Machine
Reviewed by: Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies Bayla Singer (bio) Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies. By David Tomas. New York: Continuum, 2004. Pp. viii+231. $55. This is a densely written work which uses "historical" examples as jumping-off places for exploring the concepts of selfhood, representation, perception, and imagination. "Historical" is here put in quotes for two reasons. First, David T…
Artificial Knowing
Reviewed by: Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine * Bayla Singer (bio) Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine. By Alison Adam. London: Routledge, 1998. Pp. v+210: notes/references, bibliography, index. $75 (cloth); $22.99 (paper). Alison Adam has written a feminist polemic of limited use to historians of technology. In correctly identifying the extreme reductionism practiced by those developing “artificial intelligence…
Trapped in the Net
Reviewed by: Trapped in the Net: The Unintended Consequences of Computerization * Bayla Singer (bio) Trapped in the Net: The Unintended Consequences of Computerization By Gene I. Rochlin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+293; notes/references, bibliography, index. $35 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Gene I. Rochlin supports his alarmist title with significant documentation of the degree to which computerization has been pursued…
The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology
Reviewed by: The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology * Bayla Singer (bio) The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology. Edited by Thomas Söderqvist. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. Pp. xii+264; notes, index. $52. The title of this collection of thirteen essays is somewhat misleading, as its main focus is on the history of science. A more accurate formulation is found in the first sentence of the prefac…
Virtual Realities and Their Discontents
From the Publisher: The recognition the cyberspace is a fiction--a narrative that creates a coherence it would like to imagine 'really' exists-is crucial to any theoretically sophisticated critique of the limitations of this consensual hallucination and the discontents it imperfectly masks
The Electronic Word
The Electronic Word
174 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE arrangement, the viewer was presented with a predetermined mean ing. This shift, Stafford argues, had to do with issues of control; nonliterate phenomena threatened existing social and economic sta bility. Barbara Stafford has exhibited in Artful Science the best of both the polymathic and systematic modes. Grounded in scholarship rigorous in both breadth and depth, she artfully links visuality old and ne…
Science and the Past
The ancient artifacts so carefully restored and exhibited in museums open vast windows to our understanding of humanity's past. But for every question an artefact can answer about an earlier civilization, a dozen more are raised. How long ago was this made, with what techniques, and of what materials? What was it used for? How do we know it's authentic? Modern science is able to provide more and more answers to a wide variety of such fundamental …
"The Decorated Machine" at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Decorated Machine, a temporary exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, explored the aesthetic standards applied to American-made machines in the 19th century. Two schools of thought emerged: one favored strict functionalism, and another preferred additional design elements consistent with popular taste in other areas. Most of the artifacts displayed were examples of the latter, while a careful balance of viewpoints was presented by t…
Image Worlds
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Image Worlds
"The Decorated Machine" at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Decorated Machine, a temporary exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, explored the aesthetic standards applied to American-made machines in the 19th century. Two schools of thought emerged: one favored strict functionalism, and another preferred additional design elements consistent with popular taste in other areas. Most of the artifacts displayed were examples of the latter, while a careful balance of viewpoints was presented by t…
Science and the Past
The ancient artifacts so carefully restored and exhibited in museums open vast windows to our understanding of humanity's past. But for every question an artefact can answer about an earlier civilization, a dozen more are raised. How long ago was this made, with what techniques, and of what materials? What was it used for? How do we know it's authentic? Modern science is able to provide more and more answers to a wide variety of such fundamental …
The Electronic Word
The Electronic Word
174 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE arrangement, the viewer was presented with a predetermined mean ing. This shift, Stafford argues, had to do with issues of control; nonliterate phenomena threatened existing social and economic sta bility. Barbara Stafford has exhibited in Artful Science the best of both the polymathic and systematic modes. Grounded in scholarship rigorous in both breadth and depth, she artfully links visuality old and ne…
Virtual Realities and Their Discontents
From the Publisher: The recognition the cyberspace is a fiction--a narrative that creates a coherence it would like to imagine 'really' exists-is crucial to any theoretically sophisticated critique of the limitations of this consensual hallucination and the discontents it imperfectly masks
Trapped in the Net
Reviewed by: Trapped in the Net: The Unintended Consequences of Computerization * Bayla Singer (bio) Trapped in the Net: The Unintended Consequences of Computerization By Gene I. Rochlin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+293; notes/references, bibliography, index. $35 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Gene I. Rochlin supports his alarmist title with significant documentation of the degree to which computerization has been pursued…
The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology
Reviewed by: The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology * Bayla Singer (bio) The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology. Edited by Thomas Söderqvist. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. Pp. xii+264; notes, index. $52. The title of this collection of thirteen essays is somewhat misleading, as its main focus is on the history of science. A more accurate formulation is found in the first sentence of the prefac…
Artificial Knowing
Reviewed by: Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine * Bayla Singer (bio) Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine. By Alison Adam. London: Routledge, 1998. Pp. v+210: notes/references, bibliography, index. $75 (cloth); $22.99 (paper). Alison Adam has written a feminist polemic of limited use to historians of technology. In correctly identifying the extreme reductionism practiced by those developing “artificial intelligence…
Aircraft (review)
Reviewed by: Aircraft Bayla Singer (bio) Aircraft. By David Pascoe. London: Reaktion Books, 2003. Pp. 240. $19.95. Technology and culture are intimately intertwined in this book, beginning on the cover where the hungry maw of a jet engine seems to press forward with the intensity of an Andrew Wyeth image. The title itself is chosen to evoke Le Corbusier's 1935 work of the same name; Le Corbusier, more than any other single artist, is frequently r…
Beyond the Image Machine
Reviewed by: Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies Bayla Singer (bio) Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies. By David Tomas. New York: Continuum, 2004. Pp. viii+231. $55. This is a densely written work which uses "historical" examples as jumping-off places for exploring the concepts of selfhood, representation, perception, and imagination. "Historical" is here put in quotes for two reasons. First, David T…
The Path Not Taken
Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)