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Hybrid technologies in Brazil

by ccManager
Commentary summary:
There are no sharp lines between generations of technology as seen in Brazil
Text Commentary:

The technological apparatus underlying Terry Gilliam's dystopian technocracy in Brazil are a hybrid of 18th, 19th and 20th century technologies, a parodic invocation of Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Carolyn Marvin and Bolter and Grusin's concept of remediation.

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Copyright 2010, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. ccManager. (2011, December 02). Hybrid technologies in Brazil. Retrieved May 17, 2012, from Critical Commons Web site: http://criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/commentaries/hybrid-technologies-in-brazil. This work is licensed under a No Copyright; No Rights Reserved.