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Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability.
New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader

New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

The essays provide new benchmarks for evaluating all those claims; political, social, ethical, made about the digital age.
Listening for Democracy: Recognition, Representation, ...

Listening for Democracy: Recognition, Representation, ...

Andrew Dobson

we should not, though, jump to the conclusion that feminism is either a necessary or a sufficient condition for a political analysis of listening. in her analysis ofthe so -called 'montréal massacre' of 1989,96 wendy Hui Kyong chun advocates a ...
Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber ...

Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber ...

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy.
Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the ...

Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the ...

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Pornography. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun In the 1990s, the Internet was sold as the marketplace of ideas, as democracy, come true. Al Gore contended that a global information infrastructure heralded “a new Athenian Age of democracy” because  ...
Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications

Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications

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For more on the mid- to late-1990s utopian vision of the internet, see Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (Cambridge, MA: Mit Press, 2006). 5. see David lieberman, Peter Johnson,  ...
Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media

Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual -- when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.
Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface

Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface

Kris Paulsen

... took to write it) include James Harker, Sarah Hamill, Chris Lakey, Michael Kunichika, Michael Allen, Brooke Belisle, Meredith Hoy, Wendy Chun, Frazer Ward, Melissa Ragona, Elizabeth Ferrell, Laura U. Marks, Erkki Huhtamo, Tung- Hui Hu, ...
Complete Wing Chun: The Definitive Guide to Wing Chun's ...

Complete Wing Chun: The Definitive Guide to Wing Chun's ...

Robert Chu

With the fame of Bruce Lee, the conditions in Hong Kong, and the hard work and effort of many of his classmates, the Wing Chun of the late master Yip Man became one of the most well-known and popular Chinese martial arts in the world.
The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen: With Hui-neng's ...

The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen: With Hui-neng's ...

Huineng

The career of Hui-neng had an incalculable effect on the dissemination of Zen in China. According to the biography of Hui-neng recorded in traditional Zen sources, there were thirty-three people known as formal successors of the Grand  ...
Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography And ...

Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography And ...

John J. Jørgensen

He claims that the oldest example was that of Hui-neng. Most were gilded and “[t] he implication was therefore that in his lifetime the monk whose corpse the visitor saw before him had attained buddhahood.”339 The mummy of Hui-neng and its ...
Ask Wendy: Straight-Up Advice for All the Drama In Your Life

Ask Wendy: Straight-Up Advice for All the Drama In Your Life

Wendy Williams

"Ask Wendy" has become more than just a fan-favorite TV segment; it's her calling card. Wendy has helped her viewers cope with everything from backstabbing girlfriends and deadbeat boyfriends to crazy mothers-in-law and jealous coworkers.
Bonded Joints and Repairs to Composite Airframe Structures

Bonded Joints and Repairs to Composite Airframe Structures

Chun Hui Wang

Authors Wang and Duong bring a valuable combination of academic research and industry expertise to the book, drawing on their cutting-edge composite technology experience, including analytic and computational leadership of damage and repair ...
The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 19, Number 2 (Fall 2014)

The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 19, Number 2 (Fall 2014)

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Introduction: Gender and Politics in Contemporary Korea Ju Hui Judy Han and Jennifer Jihye Chun The election of Park Geun-hye (Pak Kŭnhye) as South Korea's first female president reveals fascinating contradictions about the state of  ...
Erotic Flowers: The Photographs by Xiao Hui Wang

Erotic Flowers: The Photographs by Xiao Hui Wang

Xiao Hui Wang

Through the lens of Chinese photographer Xiao Hui Wang these flowers spark the erotic imagination. Her keen eye and superb technical skill have already been celebrated in previous collections of architectural, nude, and portrait photograph.
Wendy's Got the Heat

Wendy's Got the Heat

Wendy Williams

Wendy's Got the Heat is her story -- about growing up in a predominately white suburb, recovering from drug addiction, struggling to launch a successful career in one of the most male-dominated media industries—and it's by turns painful, ...
Rewriting Early Chinese Texts

Rewriting Early Chinese Texts

Edward L. Shaughnessy

First, the words "tong Hui wang zi Duofu FR H 3: % % " ( together with Hui Wang's son Duofu) are sensible neither grammatically (the tong |s] "together with" requires a preceding noun) nor historically (Zhou Hui Wang MlJllZE reigned from  ...
Quick Studies - I Corinthians - Ephesians

Quick Studies - I Corinthians - Ephesians

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I'm Telly Vangelist, and my guest today is Chris Chun — with a compelling testimony of how he found salvation and riches on the great highway of life. Mr. Chun, your story, please. Chris: Uh, Telly, I'm afraid you've misread your notes. I didn't ...
Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in ...

Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in ...

Jennifer Jihye Chun

In Organizing at the Margins, Jennifer Jihye Chun focuses on this shift as it takes place in two countries: South Korea and the United States.
Apologetic Works 5: Strictures on Sandemanianism

Apologetic Works 5: Strictures on Sandemanianism

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Chris Chun argues that Fuller interpreted Owen through the lens of Jonathan Edwards. See Chris Chun, The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of Andrew Fuller, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, vol. 162 (Leiden/ Boston: ...
Brian and Wendy Froud's The Pressed Fairy Journal of ...

Brian and Wendy Froud's The Pressed Fairy Journal of ...

Wendy Froud

Renowned artist/author duo Brian and Wendy Froud present, for the first time, the backstory of Cottington Hall and its intriguing inhabitants: the Cottington family and the faeries living among them.
Beyond the Blonde

Beyond the Blonde

Kathleen Flynn-Hui

In this superb roman-a-clef, Kathleen Flynn-Hui tells it like it is and gives readers more than one opportunity to spot the stars behind the stories .
Beyond the Blonde

Beyond the Blonde

Kathleen Flynn-Hui

The Devil Wears Prada meets Steel Magnolias in this fictionalized account of the real-life rise of Kathleen Flynn-Hui, star of the hot Manhattan Salon AKS.
Chance of Happiness: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island ...

Chance of Happiness: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island ...

Wendy Lynn Clark

Wendy Lynn Clark. Chance. of. Happiness. San Juan Island Stories #2 by Wendy Lynn Clark ***** Published by: Wendy Lynn Clark Publishing PO Box 1993 Vancouver, WA 98668 ...
Eat Beautiful: Nourish your skin from the inside out

Eat Beautiful: Nourish your skin from the inside out

Wendy Rowe

Foreword by Sienna Miller. World-renowned beauty and make-up expert Wendy Rowe knows skin inside out. In this refreshing beauty book, Wendy will teach you how to keep your skin healthy and let your inner and outer beauty shine.
The Politics of Imagining Asia

The Politics of Imagining Asia

Hui Wang

Wang Hui argues that we need to more fully understand China’s past in order to imagine alternative ways of conceiving Asia and world order.
The Politics of Imagining Asia

The Politics of Imagining Asia

Hui Wang

Wang Hui argues that we need to more fully understand China’s past in order to imagine alternative ways of conceiving Asia and world order.
Close to the eyes: the portraits of Xiao Hui Wang

Close to the eyes: the portraits of Xiao Hui Wang

Xiao Hui Wang

A collection of beautifully intense & masterfully composed portraits concentrating on each subjects' individuality.
Fatty Patty: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island Stories ...

Fatty Patty: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island Stories ...

Wendy Lynn Clark

Wendy Lynn Clark. Fatty. Patty. San Juan Island Stories #1 by Wendy Lynn Clark ***** Published by: Wendy Lynn Clark Publishing PO Box 1993 Vancouver, WA 98668 ...

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