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Theodore Kim
@theodore-kim.bsky.social
Professor of Computer Science, American Studies, and
Ethnicity, Race & Migration @ Yale
(Also, two Oscars)
https://www.tkim.graphics
Technical Reading, Week 5: "Perspective" in Marschner and Shirley

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Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fourth Edition
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February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
STS Reading, Week 5: "Being and the Other: Dismantling the Façade of the Empathy Machine" Chapter 4 of "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" by @lmesseri.bsky.social

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In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believin
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February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Technical Reading, Week 4: "Rasterization" in Marschner and Shirley

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Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fourth Edition
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February 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
STS Reading, Week 4: "Seeing Like a Soldier: The Coproduction of Engine and State through Amer­i­ca’s Army" Chapter 1 of "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" by @jmalazita.bsky.social

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Seeing Like a Soldier: The Coproduction of Engine and State through America’s Army
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public LicenseThe open access edition of this book was made possible by generous
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February 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Technical Reading, Week 3: "Transformation Matrices" in Marschner and Shirley

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Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fourth Edition
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January 27, 2026 at 4:01 PM
STS Reading, Week 3: "All but War Is Simulation: The Military-Entertainment Complex" by Tim Lenoir

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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January 27, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Yes! Just requested it from our library =)
January 24, 2026 at 2:17 PM
STS Reading, Week 2: "Culling Vision: Hidden Surface Algorithms and The Problem of Visibility", Chapter 1 of "Image Objects" by @jacobgaboury.bsky.social

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Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics
How computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium, as seen through the histories of five technical objec
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January 23, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Technical Reading, Week 2: "Linear Algebra" and "Viewing Transformations" in Marschner and Shirley

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Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fourth Edition
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January 23, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Less fun: the advisor who pointed it out was Max Born, who had to flee to the UK eight years later when he was one of the first professors to be blacklisted by the Nazis. Heisenberg then went on the lead Hitler's atomic weapons program.
January 20, 2026 at 7:27 PM
The *opposite* is happening in Minneapolis. People are taking to the streets to protect their neighbors. It matters a lot. 2/2
January 20, 2026 at 1:29 PM
STS Reading, Week 1: "Infrastructures of abstraction: how computer science education produces anti-political subjects" by @jmalazita.bsky.social and Resetar

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Infrastructures of abstraction: how computer science education produces anti-political subjects: Digital Creativity: Vol 30 , No 4 - Get Access
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January 12, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Technical Reading, Week 1: "A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surface Algorithms" by Sutherland, Sproull and Schumacker.

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A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surface Algorithms | ACM Computing Surveys
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January 12, 2026 at 11:54 PM