Ken Hillis
Biographic Data
| ID | 97695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Hillis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Hillis |
| SIGNATURE | HILLIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Webcams to Facebook: Gay/Queer Men and the Performance of Situatedness-in-Displacement
Networked Affect
Investigations of affective experiences that emerge in online settings that range from Facebook discussion forums to “smart” classrooms. Our encounters with websites, avatars, videos, mobile apps, discussion forums, GIFs, and nonhuman intelligent agents allow us to experience sensations of connectivity, interest, desire, and attachment—as well as detachment, boredom, fear, and shame. Some affective online encounters may arouse complex, contradict…
Introduction: Networks of Transmission: Intensity, Sensation, Value
Everyday eBay
Everyday eBay is the first scholarly analysis of the internet marketplace that has become a global social, cultural and economic phenomenon. The eighteen new and classic essays gathered here examine eBay from a wide variety of perspectives as a bellwether of taste and material culture; as a rich site of cultural, racial, and sexual discourse and practice; as an emergent media form; and as a facilitator of global consumerism. From old toys steeped…
From Capital to Karma: James Cameron's Avatar
From Capital to Karma:James Cameron's Avatar Ken Hillis (bio) James Cameron's Avatar (2009) participates in an underacknowledged yet widespread contemporary resuscitation of Neoplatonism. In the Timaeus (c. 360 BCE), Plato introduces the concept of the demiurge: "Therefore, we may consequently state that: this world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence . . . a single visible living entity containing all other living entit…
Building the Cartesian Enlightenment: Los Angeles, homelessness and the public sphere
The built form of the Los Angeles region manifests key ideals first cultivated within what Habermas refers to as the Enlightenment bourgeois public sphere. In its use of space and communication technologies, LA is an unanticipated monument to those eighteenth‐century Cartesian theories and practices that conceive of subjectivity and space as infinite, promote their mutual division, and encourage the modern subject to imagine itself as conceptuall…
Tecnologias da realidade virtual: Elementos Para Uma Geografia Da Visão
Neste artigo, Ken Hillis analisa o fenômeno do ciberespaço, concebido como uma realidade artificial ou virtual a partir de três pressupostos
A Space for the Trace: Memorable eBay and Narrative Effect
eBay the firm and eBay as a set of everyday cultural practices together arise at a time of material excess combined with an intensified exteriorization of memory processes onto digital media devices. Exchange and use values on eBay are negotiated through elaborate, at times sensational, narrative histories contextualizing the object's past, ambiguous images, and fetishized practices. Individuals may pay a premium for a sense of imagined experienc…
So Near, So Far, and Both at Once: Telefetishism and Performing Identities in Web Technologies
Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality
Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology -- or the idea -- so prevalent precisely now? What does it mean -- what does it do -- to us? Digital Sensations looks closely at the ways representational forms generated by communication technologies -- especially digital/optical virtual technologies -- affect the “lived” world. Virtual reality, or VR, is a technological reproduction of the process of p…
Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality
On the margins: The invisibility of communications in geography
Though a few geographers have made communication the object of study, communication has been undertheorized by Anglo-American geographers. When considered, communi cation has often been conflated with transportation, or been subject to quantification at the expense of sustained analysis of its implications for people and places. The increasingly central sociospatial concerns raised by new digital information technologies, however, suggest the urg…
The Power of Disembodied Imagination: Perspective's Role in Cartography
In almost opposite fashion to medieval maps, perspective technique helps in imagining how the human body conceptually might be set aside by the painter/viewer/discoverer/subject. This would allow a disembodied visual imagination to extend its point of view across a world cartographically laid out in advance. Bird's-eye-view plans are an intermediate hinge between perspective and cartography that helps condition early modern vision, and generates …
The Virtue of Becoming a No-Body
On the margins: The invisibility of communications in geography
Though a few geographers have made communication the object of study, communication has been undertheorized by Anglo-American geographers. When considered, communi cation has often been conflated with transportation, or been subject to quantification at the expense of sustained analysis of its implications for people and places. The increasingly central sociospatial concerns raised by new digital information technologies, however, suggest the urg…
A Space for the Trace: Memorable eBay and Narrative Effect
eBay the firm and eBay as a set of everyday cultural practices together arise at a time of material excess combined with an intensified exteriorization of memory processes onto digital media devices. Exchange and use values on eBay are negotiated through elaborate, at times sensational, narrative histories contextualizing the object's past, ambiguous images, and fetishized practices. Individuals may pay a premium for a sense of imagined experienc…
Building the Cartesian Enlightenment: Los Angeles, homelessness and the public sphere
The built form of the Los Angeles region manifests key ideals first cultivated within what Habermas refers to as the Enlightenment bourgeois public sphere. In its use of space and communication technologies, LA is an unanticipated monument to those eighteenth‐century Cartesian theories and practices that conceive of subjectivity and space as infinite, promote their mutual division, and encourage the modern subject to imagine itself as conceptuall…
The Power of Disembodied Imagination: Perspective's Role in Cartography
In almost opposite fashion to medieval maps, perspective technique helps in imagining how the human body conceptually might be set aside by the painter/viewer/discoverer/subject. This would allow a disembodied visual imagination to extend its point of view across a world cartographically laid out in advance. Bird's-eye-view plans are an intermediate hinge between perspective and cartography that helps condition early modern vision, and generates …
The Virtue of Becoming a No-Body
On the margins: The invisibility of communications in geography
Though a few geographers have made communication the object of study, communication has been undertheorized by Anglo-American geographers. When considered, communi cation has often been conflated with transportation, or been subject to quantification at the expense of sustained analysis of its implications for people and places. The increasingly central sociospatial concerns raised by new digital information technologies, however, suggest the urg…
Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality
Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology -- or the idea -- so prevalent precisely now? What does it mean -- what does it do -- to us? Digital Sensations looks closely at the ways representational forms generated by communication technologies -- especially digital/optical virtual technologies -- affect the “lived” world. Virtual reality, or VR, is a technological reproduction of the process of p…
Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality
So Near, So Far, and Both at Once: Telefetishism and Performing Identities in Web Technologies
A Space for the Trace: Memorable eBay and Narrative Effect
eBay the firm and eBay as a set of everyday cultural practices together arise at a time of material excess combined with an intensified exteriorization of memory processes onto digital media devices. Exchange and use values on eBay are negotiated through elaborate, at times sensational, narrative histories contextualizing the object's past, ambiguous images, and fetishized practices. Individuals may pay a premium for a sense of imagined experienc…
Building the Cartesian Enlightenment: Los Angeles, homelessness and the public sphere
The built form of the Los Angeles region manifests key ideals first cultivated within what Habermas refers to as the Enlightenment bourgeois public sphere. In its use of space and communication technologies, LA is an unanticipated monument to those eighteenth‐century Cartesian theories and practices that conceive of subjectivity and space as infinite, promote their mutual division, and encourage the modern subject to imagine itself as conceptuall…
Tecnologias da realidade virtual: Elementos Para Uma Geografia Da Visão
Neste artigo, Ken Hillis analisa o fenômeno do ciberespaço, concebido como uma realidade artificial ou virtual a partir de três pressupostos
From Capital to Karma: James Cameron's Avatar
From Capital to Karma:James Cameron's Avatar Ken Hillis (bio) James Cameron's Avatar (2009) participates in an underacknowledged yet widespread contemporary resuscitation of Neoplatonism. In the Timaeus (c. 360 BCE), Plato introduces the concept of the demiurge: "Therefore, we may consequently state that: this world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence . . . a single visible living entity containing all other living entit…
Everyday eBay
Everyday eBay is the first scholarly analysis of the internet marketplace that has become a global social, cultural and economic phenomenon. The eighteen new and classic essays gathered here examine eBay from a wide variety of perspectives as a bellwether of taste and material culture; as a rich site of cultural, racial, and sexual discourse and practice; as an emergent media form; and as a facilitator of global consumerism. From old toys steeped…
From Webcams to Facebook: Gay/Queer Men and the Performance of Situatedness-in-Displacement
Networked Affect
Investigations of affective experiences that emerge in online settings that range from Facebook discussion forums to “smart” classrooms. Our encounters with websites, avatars, videos, mobile apps, discussion forums, GIFs, and nonhuman intelligent agents allow us to experience sensations of connectivity, interest, desire, and attachment—as well as detachment, boredom, fear, and shame. Some affective online encounters may arouse complex, contradict…
Introduction: Networks of Transmission: Intensity, Sensation, Value
Computer Science (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Digital Games and Media (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)