Question 1

What is the main feminist critique of Lennart Nilsson's images of fetuses?

Accepted Answer

Answers must include the following:
a. Nilsson's earliest fetal photographs were enhanced and modified shots of specimens, yet they were often mistaken for photographs of living fetuses taken in utero.
b. Taken of nonliving specimens outside the womb, these images depict fetuses as if they are living people floating in space and not actually nascent forms dependent upon the body of a woman for survival.
c. The fetus is awarded personhood through the imaging process itself.
Answers may include the following:
a. Nilsson's technical strategies included rendering the color photographs in golden and orange tones (not unlike the colorization of the designer T cells), suggesting warm flesh and flowing blood.
b. The fetuses are often depicted as if floating in space, surrounded by lights that look like stars and providing a feeling of the cosmos.
c. The central narrative of these images is that medical photography and other forms of interior biomedical imaging are evidence of nothing short of a miracle in modern culture.
Explanation: Nilsson's images virtually erase the mother and, in their staging and composition, convey the sense that the fetus has the feelings, actions, and status of an infant.

Question 2

What is the significance of William Fetter's Boeing Man (1964) to imaging practices?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was an example of the continued cultural significance of phrenology after World War II. 
B)  It was one of the first computer renderings of a human body. 
C)  Boeing would go on to be a hotbed of innovation in imaging technology. 
D)  It was created using the first computer animation program. 
A)  It was an example of the continued cultural significance of phrenology after World War II. 
B)  It was one of the first computer renderings of a human body. 
C)  Boeing would go on to be a hotbed of innovation in imaging technology. 
D)  It was created using the first computer animation program. B

Question 3

____________ is a technique used to interpret the outward appearance and configuration of the body.

Accepted Answer

A)  Biopower 
B)  Positivism 
C)  Physiognomy 
D)  Techne 
A)  Biopower 
B)  Positivism 
C)  Physiognomy 
D)  Techne C

Question 4

Early ____________ images suggested to early viewers that the technique gave its practitioners superhuman visual powers, allowing them optically to invade the private space of the body.

Accepted Answer

A)  X-ray 
B)  PET scan 
C)  sonogram 
D)  genomic mapping 
A)  X-ray 
B)  PET scan 
C)  sonogram 
D)  genomic mapping

Question 5

Benny is accused of a crime that was committed by his brother. Nevertheless, the jury finds him guilty. The main logic behind this ruling is DNA evidence found at the scene. This situation is a possible ramification of which scholar's warning to those who see DNA as an ultimate identifier?

Accepted Answer

A)  Nancy Burson 
B)  S. Lochlann Jain 
C)  Alondra Nelson 
D)  Kelly Gates 
A)  Nancy Burson 
B)  S. Lochlann Jain 
C)  Alondra Nelson 
D)  Kelly Gates

Question 6

Created in 2017, FaceApp is a phone application that allows users to input a selfie and then use the app's neural network filters to see alternate versions of themselves. The available filters are male, female, older, younger, and smiling. This app most closely parallels the work of ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Thomas Eakins 
B)  Nancy Burson 
C)  Leonardo da Vinci 
D)  ACT UP 
A)  Thomas Eakins 
B)  Nancy Burson 
C)  Leonardo da Vinci 
D)  ACT UP

Question 7

Second-wave feminism began in the early 1960s in the United States. While the first wave focused on suffrage for women and overturning laws enforcing gender inequality, second-wave feminism expanded its scope to issues like domestic violence, sexuality, and reproductive rights. It was critiqued, however, for its lack of intersectionality. It largely ignored the problems facing women of color and queer and working-class women. This lack of inclusion most closely parallels another critique by which of the following scholars?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jean Baudrillard 
B)  Donna J. Haraway 
C)  Alondra Nelson 
D)  S. Lochlann Jain 
A)  Jean Baudrillard 
B)  Donna J. Haraway 
C)  Alondra Nelson 
D)  S. Lochlann Jain

Question 8

During the Renaissance, physicians began to seek ____________ evidence by looking inside the body, not only cutting it open to see but also using tools to seek out aspects that could not be discerned directly by hand or by eye.

Accepted Answer

A)  empirical 
B)  physiognomist 
C)  positivist 
D)  technological 
A)  empirical 
B)  physiognomist 
C)  positivist 
D)  technological

Question 9

How does Michel Foucault define a classification system?

Accepted Answer

Foucault defines a classificat

Question 10

In what way do practices of looking affect knowledge about the body negatively?

Accepted Answer

They can make knowledge about

Question 11

Police officer ____________ built upon the use of photography to identify criminals by standardizing the mug shot and introducing anthropometry for identification.

Accepted Answer

A)  Dorothy Hodgkin 
B)  Jean-Martin Charcot 
C)  Martin Schoeller 
D)  Alphonse Bertillon 
A)  Dorothy Hodgkin 
B)  Jean-Martin Charcot 
C)  Martin Schoeller 
D)  Alphonse Bertillon

Question 12

Why is it important to continue to study scientific systems that were discredited as both racist and unscientific after World War II?

Accepted Answer

Studying them helps us to cons

Question 13

____________ is an example cited by the authors as a positive product of morphing technologies.

Accepted Answer

A)  Nancy Burson's computer software that "ages" portraits 
B)  The Human Genome Project 
C)  Nancy Burson's Human Race Machine 
D)  An image of two T cells attacking a cancer cell 
A)  Nancy Burson's computer software that "ages" portraits 
B)  The Human Genome Project 
C)  Nancy Burson's Human Race Machine 
D)  An image of two T cells attacking a cancer cell

Question 14

The current biotech era is seen to be equally historically important as ____________, an era perceived to be defined by its immense progress in human creativity and fine art.

Accepted Answer

A)  the Information Age 
B)  Classical Modernity 
C)  the Industrial Revolution 
D)  the Renaissance 
A)  the Information Age 
B)  Classical Modernity 
C)  the Industrial Revolution 
D)  the Renaissance

Question 15

What element of the anthropometric study of a Chinese man establishes him as an object for cool and dispassionate study by Western scientists?

Accepted Answer

A)  the way he has been positioned 
B)  his nudity 
C)  his representation in a black-and-white image 
D)  his braid 
A)  the way he has been positioned 
B)  his nudity 
C)  his representation in a black-and-white image 
D)  his braid

Question 16

In "The Cyborg Manifesto," Donna J. Haraway theorizes the cyborg as a means to think about ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the body as an accessible digital map, something easily decipherable, understandable, and containable in the form of code 
B)  incorporating man-made devices into the human body's regulatory feedback chains to fulfill the desire for a "new and better being" 
C)  the transformation of subjectivity in a late capitalist world of science, technology, and biomedicine 
D)  the ways in which computer algorithms affect our everyday lives 
A)  the body as an accessible digital map, something easily decipherable, understandable, and containable in the form of code 
B)  incorporating man-made devices into the human body's regulatory feedback chains to fulfill the desire for a "new and better being" 
C)  the transformation of subjectivity in a late capitalist world of science, technology, and biomedicine 
D)  the ways in which computer algorithms affect our everyday lives

Question 17

In 1965, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. It prohibited state and local governments from implementing laws that placed undue hardship on people of color-especially black people-in the voting process. Some examples of these laws include the implementation of literacy tests or the requirement of a state identification card either during voter registration or at the polls themselves. The Voting Rights Act therefore decreased the state's ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  use of physiognomy 
B)  empiricism 
C)  biopower 
D)  dependence on biometrics 
A)  use of physiognomy 
B)  empiricism 
C)  biopower 
D)  dependence on biometrics

Question 18

According to Vanessa Schwartz, what desire did visiting the Paris morgue and viewing corpses satisfy in nineteenth-century Parisians?

Accepted Answer

A)  to help solve mysterious deaths 
B)  to learn 
C)  to be part of a spectacle 
D)  to look 
A)  to help solve mysterious deaths 
B)  to learn 
C)  to be part of a spectacle 
D)  to look

Question 19

What is the danger of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertisements?

Accepted Answer

Answers must include the following:
a. T

Question 20

Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer (2008) depicts a world in which Mexican workers are connected to cables through implanted nodes in their arms and back. These cables wire them into a network through which they control robots on the other side of an impenetrable Mexico-U.S. border wall. These ____________ bodies are eventually used up and discarded.

Accepted Answer

A)  biometric 
B)  cyborg 
C)  sonographed 
D)  empirical 
A)  biometric 
B)  cyborg 
C)  sonographed 
D)  empirical

What is the main feminist critique of Lennart Nilsson's images of fetuses?

What is the significance of William Fetter's Boeing Man (1964) to imaging practices?

____________ is a technique used to interpret the outward appearance and configuration of the body.

Early ____________ images suggested to early viewers that the technique gave its practitioners superhuman visual powers, allowing them optically to invade the private space of the body.

Benny is accused of a crime that was committed by his brother. Nevertheless, the jury finds him guilty. The main logic behind this ruling is DNA evidence found at the scene. This situation is a possible ramification of which scholar's warning to those who see DNA as an ultimate identifier?

Created in 2017, FaceApp is a phone application that allows users to input a selfie and then use the app's neural network filters to see alternate versions of themselves. The available filters are male, female, older, younger, and smiling. This app most closely parallels the work of ____________.

During the Renaissance, physicians began to seek ____________ evidence by looking inside the body, not only cutting it open to see but also using tools to seek out aspects that could not be discerned directly by hand or by eye.

How does Michel Foucault define a classification system?

In what way do practices of looking affect knowledge about the body negatively?

Police officer ____________ built upon the use of photography to identify criminals by standardizing the mug shot and introducing anthropometry for identification.

Why is it important to continue to study scientific systems that were discredited as both racist and unscientific after World War II?

____________ is an example cited by the authors as a positive product of morphing technologies.

The current biotech era is seen to be equally historically important as ____________, an era perceived to be defined by its immense progress in human creativity and fine art.

What element of the anthropometric study of a Chinese man establishes him as an object for cool and dispassionate study by Western scientists?

In "The Cyborg Manifesto," Donna J. Haraway theorizes the cyborg as a means to think about ____________.

According to Vanessa Schwartz, what desire did visiting the Paris morgue and viewing corpses satisfy in nineteenth-century Parisians?

What is the danger of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertisements?

Images, Power, and Politics

Viewers Make Meaning

Modernity: Spectatorship, the Gaze, and Power

Realism and Perspective: From Renaissance Painting to Digital Media

Visual Technologies, Reproduction, and the Copy

Media in Everyday Life

Brand Culture: the Images and Spaces of Consumption

Postmodernism: Irony, Parody, and Pastiche

The Global Flow of Visual Culture

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Exam 9: Scientific Looking, Looking at Science

What is the main feminist critique of Lennart Nilsson's images of fetuses?

What is the significance of William Fetter's Boeing Man (1964) to imaging practices?

____________ is a technique used to interpret the outward appearance and configuration of the body.

Early ____________ images suggested to early viewers that the technique gave its practitioners superhuman visual powers, allowing them optically to invade the private space of the body.

Benny is accused of a crime that was committed by his brother. Nevertheless, the jury finds him guilty. The main logic behind this ruling is DNA evidence found at the scene. This situation is a possible ramification of which scholar's warning to those who see DNA as an ultimate identifier?

Created in 2017, FaceApp is a phone application that allows users to input a selfie and then use the app's neural network filters to see alternate versions of themselves. The available filters are male, female, older, younger, and smiling. This app most closely parallels the work of ____________.

During the Renaissance, physicians began to seek ____________ evidence by looking inside the body, not only cutting it open to see but also using tools to seek out aspects that could not be discerned directly by hand or by eye.

How does Michel Foucault define a classification system?

In what way do practices of looking affect knowledge about the body negatively?

Police officer ____________ built upon the use of photography to identify criminals by standardizing the mug shot and introducing anthropometry for identification.

Why is it important to continue to study scientific systems that were discredited as both racist and unscientific after World War II?

____________ is an example cited by the authors as a positive product of morphing technologies.

The current biotech era is seen to be equally historically important as ____________, an era perceived to be defined by its immense progress in human creativity and fine art.

What element of the anthropometric study of a Chinese man establishes him as an object for cool and dispassionate study by Western scientists?

In "The Cyborg Manifesto," Donna J. Haraway theorizes the cyborg as a means to think about ____________.

According to Vanessa Schwartz, what desire did visiting the Paris morgue and viewing corpses satisfy in nineteenth-century Parisians?

What is the danger of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertisements?

Images, Power, and Politics

Viewers Make Meaning

Modernity: Spectatorship, the Gaze, and Power

Realism and Perspective: From Renaissance Painting to Digital Media

Visual Technologies, Reproduction, and the Copy

Media in Everyday Life

Brand Culture: the Images and Spaces of Consumption

Postmodernism: Irony, Parody, and Pastiche

The Global Flow of Visual Culture

Filters