About the bloggers

Our blog allows named authorship as well as anonymous nom d’plume postings for those who don’t feel safe publishing critical posts. Difference Engines is committed to hosting many voices. Interested in guest blogging? Email blogladies (at) differenceengines.com.

“zelda” is Antoinette LaFarge, an artist-writer with a particular interest in constructed realities of all kinds, from role-playing games to media, art, and techno-culture. She teaches in the Studio Art department at the University of California, Irvine, and her home website is forger.com.

Kavita is an Associate Professor at UC Irvine’s Program in Women’s Studies. Her research interests are in technology in the developing world; transnational histories of science and technology; gender, race, globalization and postcolonialism; environmental history; and new media theory. She is author of Civilizing Natures (2003 and 2004), and co-editor of the volumes Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (with Monshipouri, Englehart, and Nathan, 2003), Multiple Contentions (with Skotnes, 2003), Homeland Securities (with Reilly and Serlin, 2005), and Tactical Biopolitics (with da Costa, 2008).

Lilly is Lilly Irani, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Science Studies at UC San Diego. She’s interested in design and power, innovation culture, postcolonial studies, and too much more.

Beth is Beth Reddy, a PhD candidate in Anthropology at UC Irvine. She studies seismic science and seismic politics in Mexico.

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Lisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies Program and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.  She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000).  She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication, PMLA, Cinema Journal, The Women’s Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies.   She is editing a collection with Peter Chow-White entitled Digital Race: An Anthology (Routledge, forthcoming) and is working on a new monograph on social inequality in virtual worlds, tentatively entitled “Workers Without Bodies: Towards a Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds, or, Why World of Warcraft needs a Civil Rights Movement.”

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  1. Zinc says:

    Zinc Sulphate: ZnSO4.7H2O is a water soluble, clear, crystalline compound. It functions as a mordant in dyeing; as a preservative for skins and leather; and as an astringent and emitic in medicine.

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