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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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"Digital Punk Rock Spirit:" A Spatial Reorientation of Asian American Diasporic Subcultural Subjectivities

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Le, Richard
Department or Program
Urban Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis is about Asian Americans creating and seeking a spaces of belonging, in and between essentialisms of racial, national, ethnic, and cultural borders. Starting from the 1800s, Chinese laborers formed ethnic communities and contested their belonging under the state-sanctioned...

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A bug in the system: speculations on cybernetics, superorganisms, and simulated serendipity

Publication Date
2016-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Layla Fassa
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

What is a cybernetic organism in the age of digital imagining? Where can we find a historical nexus between the methods used to models systems and the increasing velocity of digital images? How do bodies fracture and congeal when integrated...

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