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Disrupt San Francisco: TechCrunch Puts Startups Onstage

September 30, 2015
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Disrupt San Francisco: TechCrunch Puts Startups Onstage

Li Cornfeld reports on the 2015 Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt San Fransisco, and critiques the neoliberal underpinnings of subjecting creators of innovative technologies for diverse industrial sectors to restrictive and uniform presentational paradigms.
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“They Repackaged It”: Technofuturism in Tomorrowland

June 1, 2015
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“They Repackaged It”: Technofuturism in <em>Tomorrowland</em>

Li Cornfeld considers the technofuturism and Cold War nostalgia in "Tomorrowland," in light of the Walt Disney Company’s own corporate departure from space age optimism.
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As Seen on Shark Tank: Tech Entrepreneurship’s Portable Aesthetics

March 3, 2015
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As Seen on <i>Shark Tank</i>: Tech Entrepreneurship’s Portable Aesthetics

In a recent episode of ABC's Shark Tank, debate over what constitutes a technology takes on industrial dimensions as the stylistics of Silicon Valley shape popular images of entrepreneurship across industrial sectors.
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