Martha Fuller
Biographic Data
| ID | 97279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Fuller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuller |
| SIGNATURE | FULLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3560-0626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang's Film UKI and Nature's Infestations of Technology
Shu Lea Cheang's film UKI (2023) presents a 'sci-fi viral alt reality' diagnosing the present via elaboration into a future. The film, made in a game engine, narrates cunning and desire in the interlacing of biotechnology, the state, hacking, ecology, the formation of waste and the invention of sexual practices. UKI proposes a way of thinking the interaction of technology and nature. First Nature is that given by evolution. Second Nature, as the …
A Filter Theory of Photography
Filters – both technically and in a wider sense of the term – provide a new way of theorizing photography. Most obviously, filters sieve things, persons and data out of flows; more specifically, they are key to the non-optical formations at work in image production based on neural networks in machine learning. In this essay, we argue that theorizing photography from the perspective of filtering reconfigures photography as the entire field of mate…
L'esthétique d'investigation
Les investigations esthétiques ont un double objectif : elles sont à la fois des investigations sur le monde et des enquêtes sur les moyens de le connaître. Cela signifie qu'elles cherchent à être redevables à la fois des événements et des dispositifs avec lesquels nous les percevons. Elles cherchent à établir des prétentions à la vérité tout en critiquant les institutions du pouvoir et du savoir qui revendiquent le monopole des mécanismes de pro…
Vibrant Death: A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning
Vibrant Death links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking. It offers a radically new materialist theory of death, critically moving the philosophical argument beyond Christian and secular-mechanistic understandings. The book’s ethico-political figuration of vibrant death is shaped through a pluriversal conversation between Deleuzean philosophy, neo-vitalist materialism and the spiritual materialism of decolonia…
The Posthumanities in an Era of Unexpected Consequences
The posthumanities constitute an affirmative, expanded development of the traditional humanities embedded within the posthuman convergence. Numerous changes impel recognition of wider forms and constituents of conditions no longer nameable simply as human, also implying mature relations to technology and science. The posthuman condition - in fields as diverse as military strategy, health, education and machine learning - brings entities and proce…
A Counter-Forensic Audit Trail: Disassembling the Case of The Hateful Eight
Forensics is proposed as a means to understand, trace, and recompile data and computational activities. It has a securitocratic dimension and one that is being developed as a means of opening processes, events and systems into a more public state. This article proposes an analysis of forces at play in the circulation of a 'screener' of Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight and associated files, to suggest that forensic approaches used to control …
Memory in Motion: Archives, Technology, and the Social
How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instant updating, and interconnection in real time, is very…
Evil Media
A philosophical manual of media power for the network age. Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and pharmaceutical techniques. Evil Media invites the reader to explore an…
Digital Infrastructures and the Machinery of Topological Abstraction
Drawing on contemporary pragmatic philosophy and grounded in a reading of techniques associated with digital media as sophist practices of influence and manipulation, this paper proposes an 'experimental' reading of key aspects of the topological qualities of the infrastructure of the knowledge economy, with its obsessive attempts at measuring, recording and monitoring, or 'qualculation'. Taking seriously, albeit with humour, early criticisms of …
An Exploration of MSW Field Education and Impairment Prevention: What Do We Need to Know
This paper examines the types of challenges social work students face and how practicum performance is impacted by them. Secondary data related to 125 social work students in a course in human behavior in the social environment were analyzed. More than one-fourth of students reported a parent with mental health and substance abuse problems. Students' self-reported substance abuse problems (9%), and mental health problems (16%). Sixty-two percent …
Personal Web searching in the age of semantic capitalism: Diagnosing the mechanisms of personalisation
Web search engines have become indispensable tools for finding information online effectively. As the range of information, context and users of Internet searches has grown, the relationship between the search query, search interest and user has become more tenuous. Not all users are seeking the same information, even if they use the same query term. Thus, the quality of search results has, at least potentially, been decreasing. Search engines ha…
Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture
In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact. Complex objects such as media systems—understood here as processes, or elements in a composition as much as "things"—have become informational as much as physical, but without losing any of their fundamental materiality. Fuller looks at this multiplicitous materiality—how it can be sensed, made use of, and how it makes other possibilities tangible. He investigates t…
Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software
There are two questions which I would like to begin with. First, \nwhat kind of critical and inventive thinking is required to take the \nvarious movements in software forward into those areas which are \nnecessary if software oligopolies are to be undermined? But further, \nhow are we to develop the capacity for unleashing the unexpected \nupon software and the certainties which form it? \nSecond, what currents are emerging which demand and inco…
Voiceover
Essay| April 01 2002 Voiceover Rachel Greene, Rachel Greene Rachel Greene was a Helena Rubenstein Critical Studies Fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program from 1999-2000. A board member and former editor of Rhizome.org, Greene also writes for Artforum and Frieze. She also works at the independent media and design company Funny Garbage. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Gloria Sutton, Gloria S…
Freedom in Fulani Social Life: An Introspective Ethnography
Digital Infrastructures and the Machinery of Topological Abstraction
Drawing on contemporary pragmatic philosophy and grounded in a reading of techniques associated with digital media as sophist practices of influence and manipulation, this paper proposes an 'experimental' reading of key aspects of the topological qualities of the infrastructure of the knowledge economy, with its obsessive attempts at measuring, recording and monitoring, or 'qualculation'. Taking seriously, albeit with humour, early criticisms of …
The Posthumanities in an Era of Unexpected Consequences
The posthumanities constitute an affirmative, expanded development of the traditional humanities embedded within the posthuman convergence. Numerous changes impel recognition of wider forms and constituents of conditions no longer nameable simply as human, also implying mature relations to technology and science. The posthuman condition - in fields as diverse as military strategy, health, education and machine learning - brings entities and proce…
Memory in Motion: Archives, Technology, and the Social
How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instant updating, and interconnection in real time, is very…
An Exploration of MSW Field Education and Impairment Prevention: What Do We Need to Know
This paper examines the types of challenges social work students face and how practicum performance is impacted by them. Secondary data related to 125 social work students in a course in human behavior in the social environment were analyzed. More than one-fourth of students reported a parent with mental health and substance abuse problems. Students' self-reported substance abuse problems (9%), and mental health problems (16%). Sixty-two percent …
A Counter-Forensic Audit Trail: Disassembling the Case of The Hateful Eight
Forensics is proposed as a means to understand, trace, and recompile data and computational activities. It has a securitocratic dimension and one that is being developed as a means of opening processes, events and systems into a more public state. This article proposes an analysis of forces at play in the circulation of a 'screener' of Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight and associated files, to suggest that forensic approaches used to control …
Freedom in Fulani Social Life: An Introspective Ethnography
Voiceover
Essay| April 01 2002 Voiceover Rachel Greene, Rachel Greene Rachel Greene was a Helena Rubenstein Critical Studies Fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program from 1999-2000. A board member and former editor of Rhizome.org, Greene also writes for Artforum and Frieze. She also works at the independent media and design company Funny Garbage. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Gloria Sutton, Gloria S…
Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software
There are two questions which I would like to begin with. First, \nwhat kind of critical and inventive thinking is required to take the \nvarious movements in software forward into those areas which are \nnecessary if software oligopolies are to be undermined? But further, \nhow are we to develop the capacity for unleashing the unexpected \nupon software and the certainties which form it? \nSecond, what currents are emerging which demand and inco…
Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture
In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact. Complex objects such as media systems—understood here as processes, or elements in a composition as much as "things"—have become informational as much as physical, but without losing any of their fundamental materiality. Fuller looks at this multiplicitous materiality—how it can be sensed, made use of, and how it makes other possibilities tangible. He investigates t…
Personal Web searching in the age of semantic capitalism: Diagnosing the mechanisms of personalisation
Web search engines have become indispensable tools for finding information online effectively. As the range of information, context and users of Internet searches has grown, the relationship between the search query, search interest and user has become more tenuous. Not all users are seeking the same information, even if they use the same query term. Thus, the quality of search results has, at least potentially, been decreasing. Search engines ha…
Evil Media
A philosophical manual of media power for the network age. Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and pharmaceutical techniques. Evil Media invites the reader to explore an…
Digital Infrastructures and the Machinery of Topological Abstraction
Drawing on contemporary pragmatic philosophy and grounded in a reading of techniques associated with digital media as sophist practices of influence and manipulation, this paper proposes an 'experimental' reading of key aspects of the topological qualities of the infrastructure of the knowledge economy, with its obsessive attempts at measuring, recording and monitoring, or 'qualculation'. Taking seriously, albeit with humour, early criticisms of …
An Exploration of MSW Field Education and Impairment Prevention: What Do We Need to Know
This paper examines the types of challenges social work students face and how practicum performance is impacted by them. Secondary data related to 125 social work students in a course in human behavior in the social environment were analyzed. More than one-fourth of students reported a parent with mental health and substance abuse problems. Students' self-reported substance abuse problems (9%), and mental health problems (16%). Sixty-two percent …
Memory in Motion: Archives, Technology, and the Social
How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instant updating, and interconnection in real time, is very…
The Posthumanities in an Era of Unexpected Consequences
The posthumanities constitute an affirmative, expanded development of the traditional humanities embedded within the posthuman convergence. Numerous changes impel recognition of wider forms and constituents of conditions no longer nameable simply as human, also implying mature relations to technology and science. The posthuman condition - in fields as diverse as military strategy, health, education and machine learning - brings entities and proce…
A Counter-Forensic Audit Trail: Disassembling the Case of The Hateful Eight
Forensics is proposed as a means to understand, trace, and recompile data and computational activities. It has a securitocratic dimension and one that is being developed as a means of opening processes, events and systems into a more public state. This article proposes an analysis of forces at play in the circulation of a 'screener' of Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight and associated files, to suggest that forensic approaches used to control …
Vibrant Death: A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning
Vibrant Death links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking. It offers a radically new materialist theory of death, critically moving the philosophical argument beyond Christian and secular-mechanistic understandings. The book’s ethico-political figuration of vibrant death is shaped through a pluriversal conversation between Deleuzean philosophy, neo-vitalist materialism and the spiritual materialism of decolonia…
L'esthétique d'investigation
Les investigations esthétiques ont un double objectif : elles sont à la fois des investigations sur le monde et des enquêtes sur les moyens de le connaître. Cela signifie qu'elles cherchent à être redevables à la fois des événements et des dispositifs avec lesquels nous les percevons. Elles cherchent à établir des prétentions à la vérité tout en critiquant les institutions du pouvoir et du savoir qui revendiquent le monopole des mécanismes de pro…
A Filter Theory of Photography
Filters – both technically and in a wider sense of the term – provide a new way of theorizing photography. Most obviously, filters sieve things, persons and data out of flows; more specifically, they are key to the non-optical formations at work in image production based on neural networks in machine learning. In this essay, we argue that theorizing photography from the perspective of filtering reconfigures photography as the entire field of mate…
Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang's Film UKI and Nature's Infestations of Technology
Shu Lea Cheang's film UKI (2023) presents a 'sci-fi viral alt reality' diagnosing the present via elaboration into a future. The film, made in a game engine, narrates cunning and desire in the interlacing of biotechnology, the state, hacking, ecology, the formation of waste and the invention of sexual practices. UKI proposes a way of thinking the interaction of technology and nature. First Nature is that given by evolution. Second Nature, as the …
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