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Clear curved acrylic pieces with golden tips are arranged in a flowy composition on a black linen background. Glass case with black wooden frame complete the upscale look. Combine this wall art with matching piece "Cloud Chamber I" for a balanced symmetrical composition.

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters argues that though we often think of media as environments, the reverse is just as true—environments are media. Peters defines media expansively as elements that compose the human world. Drawing from ideas implicit in media philosophy, Peters argues that media are more than carriers of messages: they are the very infrastructures combining nature and culture that allow human life to thrive.  Through an encyclopedic array of examples from the oceans to the skies, The Marvelous Clouds reveals the long prehistory of so-called new media. Digital media, Peters argues, are an extension of early practices tied to the establishment of civilization such as mastering fire, building calendars, reading the stars, creating language, and establishing religions. New media do not take us into uncharted waters, but rather confront us with the deepest and oldest questions of society and ecology: how to manage the relations people have with themselves, others, and the natural world. A wide-ranging meditation on the many means we have employed to cope with the struggles of existence—from navigation to farming, meteorology to Google—The Marvelous Clouds shows how media lie at the very heart of our interactions with the world around us.  Peters’s  book will not only change how we think about media but provide a new appreciation for the day-to-day foundations of life on earth that we so often take for granted.

Be at the forefront of high-performance network storage with the Blackmagic Cloud Store, an 80TB powerhouse designed to handle large media files typically used in Hollywood feature films. This advanced flash memory storage solution is engineered to accommodate multiple simultaneous users with ease, making it a top choice for film and television industries where large media files need to be shared between multiple users for editing, color correction, audio post, and VFX work.The Blackmagic Cloud Store is not just about capacity; it's about speed and convenience. With Dropbox live sync, files can be distributed between multiple units globally for very fast local file access, even on lower-cost internet connections. This eliminates the need for IT consultants and subscription fees, making it a cost-effective solution for businesses.The Blackmagic Cloud Store is also designed with portability in mind. Unlike traditional IT industry storage products that are rack-mounted and have loud cooling fans, this storage solution boasts an elegant vertical design that's portable and whisper quiet, making it suitable for on-location use.The Cloud Store is equipped with four 10G Ethernet ports that operate as a switch, allowing you to connect four separate computers. These ports can also work together using "link aggregation" for a massive 40G Ethernet speed. Additionally, it features an HDMI monitoring output for real-time storage status viewing on a TV or monitor.The Blackmagic Cloud Store also offers a USB-C ingest port for automatic loading from any disk plugged in, and a USB-C backup port for automatic backup of cloud store files to any USB disk plugged in. This provides a low-cost way to protect your critical files.With the Blackmagic Cloud Store, you can enjoy high performance for digital film files. Its internal memory core is designed to saturate all four 10G Ethernet ports to their theoretical maximum speed, all at the same time. This makes it incredibly fast and responsive, even when editing large 12K digital film RAW files.The Blackmagic Cloud Store also allows you to set up a local cache of your Dropbox files for faster working. It constantly works to stay in sync, saving space on your computer by moving cached Dropbox files to the Cloud Store. This makes them accessible to everyone on your local network.The Blackmagic Cloud Store is designed with a redundant RAID 5 array of M.2 flash memory cards for extreme reliability, high access speeds, and zero seek times. This ensures massive speed combined with fault tolerance. If a faulty M.2 card is detected, the cloud store will automatically enter read-only mode, so you can still access your files.In summary, the Blackmagic Cloud Store is a high-capacity, high-speed, and highly reliable network storage solution that is perfect for businesses dealing with large media files. Its advanced features and user-friendly design make it a superior choice over discount storage products sold at office supply stores.

Make global collaboration a breeze with the Blackmagic Cloud Store Mini, a revolutionary storage solution that lets you share and sync media files across the globe in minutes. This high-performance device integrates seamlessly with Blackmagic Cloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive, making it an ideal choice for editors, colorists, audio engineers, and VFX artists who need to share large media files quickly and efficiently.The Blackmagic Cloud Store Mini is designed to handle the demands of film and television production, effortlessly managing large media files for editing, color correction, audio post-production, and VFX work. It's even capable of handling massive 12K Blackmagic RAW digital cinema files, ensuring zero latency for each user and eliminating the need for local file storage.This high-capacity model boasts a 16TB RAID 0 flash memory core, 10G Ethernet, 1G Ethernet, and USB-C connectivity, along with Dropbox and Google Drive sync capabilities for global file distribution. The compact, rack-mount design is both portable and whisper-quiet, featuring an internal array of four flash memory cards working in parallel for increased speed.The 10G and 1G Ethernet ports operate as a two-port network switch, allowing you to connect the 10G port directly to your computer and the 1G port to your existing network. For quick file access, the USB-C port can also function as a network connection simply by plugging it into your computer. An HDMI monitoring output provides a live graphic view of the storage operation on a TV or monitor.The Blackmagic Cloud Store Mini is equipped with an IEC power socket for AC power connection and supports all international AC voltages, making it a truly global solution. A separate DC power input is also provided for redundancy or battery use.The device's high performance is further enhanced by the 10G Ethernet port, which allows high-speed computers to be connected. The internal memory core is designed to maximize the 10G Ethernet port's speed, even with multiple users connected. The USB-C port supports Ethernet for file access, and the HDMI monitor output lets you monitor the status of your Cloud Store Mini in real time.The Blackmagic Cloud Store Mini is equipped with 16TB of flash memory, providing ample space for your files. The M.2 flash memory cards are used for extreme reliability, high access speeds, and zero seek times. The four M.2 cards are arranged in a parallel RAID 0 group for faster operation, ensuring enough speed to keep up with the 10G Ethernet connection.With the ability to sync to Blackmagic Cloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive, the Blackmagic Cloud Store Mini allows you to set up a local cache of your files for faster work. You can save space on your computer by moving cached Dropbox and Google Drive files to the Cloud Store Mini, allowing everyone on your network to share them. You can even sync multiple Cloud Store Minis via Blackmagic Cloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive for seamless collaboration across...

Explore the high-performance capabilities of the Cloud Store Mini, a 16TB network storage solution specifically engineered for the film and television industry. This cutting-edge device from Blackmagic is designed to seamlessly sync with Blackmagic Cloud media and support DaVinci Resolve proxy files, enabling instant synchronization of camera media for immediate post-production work.The Cloud Store Mini boasts a rapid flash-based memory core, allowing multiple users to work simultaneously, making it an ideal solution for sharing large media files among editors, colorists, audio engineers, and VFX artists. It also allows for the construction of a broadcast replay system by connecting multiple HyperDeck recorders and DaVinci Resolve 19, complete with a status monitor output.This storage solution is tailored to handle large media files used in film and television, where multiple professionals work on the media concurrently. It effortlessly manages massive 12K Blackmagic RAW digital film files, providing zero latency for each user and eliminating the need for local computer storage. The Cloud Store Mini also supports Blackmagic Cloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive, enabling media synchronization to different locations globally for the fastest editing experience possible. It's also perfect for live replay with DaVinci Resolve 19!The device is equipped with a 10G Ethernet port for high-speed connections, a 1G Ethernet connection for slower connections, and a USB-C port for settings and updates. It also features an HDMI monitor output for real-time status monitoring. The Cloud Store Mini is designed with a portable and quiet rack mount design, featuring an internal array of 4 flash memory cards working in parallel for higher speed. The USB-C port can also operate as a network connection, simply by plugging it into your computer. The device uses M.2 flash memory cards for extreme reliability, high access speeds, and zero seek times. The Mini model has 4x M.2 cards arranged in a massive parallel RAID 0 group for extreme performance, ensuring enough speed to keep up with dozens of users.With very high-speed 10G and 100G Ethernet connections, the Cloud Store Mini is incredibly fast. The internal memory core has been designed to saturate the 10G Ethernet ports to their theoretical maximum speed, even with multiple users connected. The Cloud Store Mini also allows you to install a local cache of media uploaded to the Blackmagic Cloud website or Dropbox and Google Drive, making working faster because files are distributed globally, to as many sites as you need! With support for the Blackmagic Cloud website, Dropbox and Google Drive sync, you can use the Cloud Store Mini to share media files globally. This is crucial when working with large datasets or massive digital film and video files. The device also features a customizable name, a storage map display, cloud sync status, user connections, and hardware status. The lower part of the display has the data transfer...

What sets the Cloud Store Max, 24TB apart is its high-performance network storage, specifically tailored for the film and television industry. This advanced storage solution is powered by Blackmagic Cloud, offering seamless media sync and support for DaVinci Resolve proxy files. This ensures that as soon as the film crew begins shooting, the camera media syncs within seconds, enabling the post-production team to start work immediately.The Cloud Store Max, 24TB boasts a rapid flash-based memory core, allowing multiple users to work simultaneously. This feature is ideal for sharing large media files among editors, colorists, audio engineers, and VFX artists. You can even construct a broadcast replay system by connecting multiple HyperDeck recorders and DaVinci Resolve 19, with a status monitor output included for convenience.Designed with the film and television industry in mind, the Cloud Store Max, 24TB is capable of handling large media files used in these industries. It supports multiple editors, colorists, audio engineers, and VFX artists working on the media simultaneously, even accommodating massive 12K Blackmagic RAW digital film files. Each user experiences zero latency and doesn't need to store files on their local computer, making it a perfect fit for DaVinci Resolve.The Cloud Store Max, 24TB also supports Blackmagic Cloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive, allowing media to be synchronized to different locations globally. This ensures each location enjoys the fastest editing experience possible. It's also perfect for live replay with DaVinci Resolve 19!The Cloud Store Max, 24TB is not just perfect for post-production, but also offers the speed to handle massive digital film files and numerous simultaneous users. The Blackmagic Cloud sync downloads proxy files in seconds, followed by camera RAW files, even from remote cameras on set!The Cloud Store Max, 24TB features an extremely high-performance flash storage, with 24 and 48TB models, a 12 card RAID 0 flash memory core, 4 x 10G Ethernet, 100G Ethernet, USB-C, and Blackmagic Cloud sync for distributing files globally. Its portable and quiet design, along with a rack mount design, makes it a versatile choice for any setting.With the Cloud Store Max, 24TB, you can enjoy high performance for digital film files, sync to Blackmagic Cloud for global media, distribute files globally with Blackmagic Cloud, and monitor your storage in real time. It's the ultimate storage solution for professionals in the film and television industry.

Overcome geographical barriers and collaborate seamlessly with the Blackmagic Cloud Store, a 320TB storage solution designed specifically for media professionals. This high-capacity storage device allows you to share your media files globally, making it an ideal tool for editors, colorists, audio engineers, and VFX artists working on film and television projects.The Blackmagic Cloud Store is not just a storage device; it's a powerful tool that integrates with Dropbox and Google Drive, allowing for efficient synchronization and sharing of media files. Its advanced technology understands proxy workflows, enabling entire timelines and their associated media to be shared in mere minutes.The device's internal memory core is engineered for speed, capable of saturating the four 10G Ethernet ports to their theoretical maximum speed, even when multiple users are connected. This results in low latency file access and rapid responsiveness, making it an excellent choice for sharing media between multiple users.The Blackmagic Cloud Store is also designed to handle massive 12K Blackmagic RAW digital cinema files, providing zero latency for each user without the need for local storage. This makes it an ideal solution for DaVinci Resolve, where large media files need to be shared between multiple users for editing, color correction, audio post, and VFX work.The device's design is both portable and quiet, unlike traditional IT industry storage products. Its vertical design houses an array of flash memory cards working in parallel for speed and data protection, and it even includes two redundant power supplies. The four 10G Ethernet ports operate as a switch, allowing connection to four separate computers, and an HDMI monitoring output lets you watch a live graphic view of the storage operating on a TV or monitor.The Blackmagic Cloud Store also features a USB-C ingest port that automatically loads from any disk plugged in, and a USB-C backup port that automatically backs up cloud store files to any USB disk plugged in. This provides a cost-effective way to protect your critical files.With the Blackmagic Cloud Store, you can monitor the status of your cloud store in real time via the HDMI monitor output. This feature allows you to view a storage map, speed graphs, sync, active users, and power status. The device also includes two 1G Ethernet connections for slower connections, and four 10G Ethernet ports for faster connections.The Blackmagic Cloud Store uses M.2 flash memory cards for extreme reliability, high access speeds, and zero seek times. These cards are arranged in parallel RAID 5 groups for faster operation and fault tolerance. If a faulty M.2 card is detected, the cloud store will automatically enter read-only mode, allowing you to still access your files.With its high performance and support for digital film files, the Blackmagic Cloud Store is an excellent choice for media professionals. Its ability to sync to Dropbox and Google Drive allows you to set...

Take your media storage to the next level with the Blackmagic Cloud Store, a high-performance network storage solution designed to handle large media files typically used in Hollywood feature films. This advanced flash memory-based storage system is capable of accommodating multiple simultaneous users, making it an ideal choice for film and television production where large media files need to be shared between multiple users for editing, color correction, audio post, and VFX work.The Blackmagic Cloud Store is not just a storage device; it's a comprehensive solution that offers global sync capabilities with Dropbox live sync. This feature allows files to be distributed between multiple units globally, ensuring fast local file access even on lower-cost internet connections. Unlike traditional SAN systems, the Blackmagic Cloud Store requires no IT consultants and incurs no subscription fees.This high-capacity network disk is available in 20 TB, 80 TB, and massive 320 TB models, providing ample space for all your business files and video media. The use of M.2 flash memory cards ensures extreme reliability, high access speeds, and zero seek times. These cards are arranged in parallel RAID 5 groups for enhanced speed and fault tolerance.The Blackmagic Cloud Store is designed for portability and quiet operation. Its elegant vertical design is a stark contrast to rack-mounted IT industry storage products with loud cooling fans. Internally, it features an array of flash memory cards working in parallel for speed and data protection, along with two redundant power supplies.The Cloud Store is equipped with four 10G Ethernet ports that can operate as a switch to connect four separate computers, or work together using "link aggregation" for a massive 40G Ethernet speed. It also features an HDMI monitoring output for real-time storage status viewing on a TV or monitor.The Blackmagic Cloud Store also includes a USB-C ingest port for automatic loading from any disk plugged in, and a USB-C backup port for automatic backup of cloud store files to any USB disk plugged in. It also offers two 1G Ethernet connections for slower connections such as the internet or slower computers.With the Blackmagic Cloud Store, you can enjoy high performance for digital film files, thanks to its four separate high-speed 10G Ethernet connections. It's designed to handle massive 12K Blackmagic RAW digital cinema files with zero latency, ensuring a smooth editing experience. The Cloud Store also offers real-time monitoring through its HDMI output, allowing you to see the status of your storage in real time. You can view a storage map, speed graphs, sync, active users, and power status. The Blackmagic Cloud Store is more than just a storage solution; it's a comprehensive tool designed to streamline your media handling and sharing processes, making it an invaluable asset for film and television production.

Why settle for less when you can have the best with the Blackmagic Cloud Pod? This innovative device transforms any USB-C disk into a network storage powerhouse, making it the ideal solution for sharing media disks recorded on a camera with multiple users across your network. Engineered for high-speed performance, the Cloud Pod features a 10G Ethernet connection, ensuring rapid file access even with multiple simultaneous users. It's not just fast, it's reliable and efficient, designed to handle even the most demanding digital workloads. With the Blackmagic Cloud Pod, you can enjoy the convenience of Dropbox live sync. This feature allows files to be distributed between multiple units globally, ensuring fast local file access, even on lower-cost internet connections. No need for IT consultants, as this device is user-friendly and easy to operate. Designed specifically for the film and television industry, the Cloud Pod allows you to record onto USB-C flash disks and make the disk available on the network for multiple editors and colorists to use. It can even handle massive 12K Blackmagic RAW digital cinema files, depending on the brand of USB-C flash disk used. The Cloud Pod's compact and quiet design makes it highly portable. It hosts two separate USB disks on your network at the same time, thanks to its two USB-C ports. The 10G Ethernet port ensures high performance, and the HDMI monitoring output allows you to watch a live graphic view of the storage operating on a TV or monitor. The Blackmagic Cloud Pod is more than just a storage device. It's a tool for global collaboration, allowing you to sync multiple Cloud Pods or Cloud Stores via Dropbox so people in different geographic locations can work together without latency. With its real-time monitoring feature, you can connect a TV or computer monitor to get a live status of the Cloud Pod. The storage map shows a graphic representation of the memory core and real-time read and write access happening for the connected users. The Blackmagic Cloud Pod is a testament to Blackmagic Design's reputation for producing high-quality, reliable, and innovative products. It's not just a device, it's a solution, designed to transform the way you work and collaborate.

This is an instructive book by a well-known artist-author for those working on landscapes. Ranson gives advice on how skies dictate the whole mood and feeling of a landscape, and shares his techniques using visual references to numerous sky and cloud types, so the reader can render their chosen sky effectively. The book seeks to enable every landscape artist to achieve credibility and stature of the whole picture.

What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising.  The collection’s fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media, from radio serials to cyberpunk novels, from Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu to Firefly.  Applying a variety of theoretical, historical, and interpretive approaches, the contributors consider techno-orientalism a truly global phenomenon. In part, they tackle the key question of how these stereotypes serve to both express and assuage Western anxieties about Asia’s growing cultural influence and economic dominance. Yet the book also examines artists who have appropriated techno-orientalist tropes in order to critique racist and imperialist attitudes.  Techno-Orientalism is the first collection to define and critically analyze a phenomenon that pervades both science fiction and real-world news coverage of Asia. With essays on subjects ranging from wartime rhetoric of race and technology to science fiction by contemporary Asian American writers to the cultural implications of Korean gamers, this volume offers innovative perspectives and broadens conventional discussions in Asian American Cultural studies.    

What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising.  The collection’s fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media, from radio serials to cyberpunk novels, from Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu to Firefly.  Applying a variety of theoretical, historical, and interpretive approaches, the contributors consider techno-orientalism a truly global phenomenon. In part, they tackle the key question of how these stereotypes serve to both express and assuage Western anxieties about Asia’s growing cultural influence and economic dominance. Yet the book also examines artists who have appropriated techno-orientalist tropes in order to critique racist and imperialist attitudes.  Techno-Orientalism is the first collection to define and critically analyze a phenomenon that pervades both science fiction and real-world news coverage of Asia. With essays on subjects ranging from wartime rhetoric of race and technology to science fiction by contemporary Asian American writers to the cultural implications of Korean gamers, this volume offers innovative perspectives and broadens conventional discussions in Asian American Cultural studies.    

Be at the forefront of post-production efficiency with the Media Dock, specifically designed to streamline your workflow by enabling mounting, network sharing, and uploading to Blackmagic Cloud media from up to three Blackmagic Media Modules simultaneously. This powerful tool is engineered to eliminate media offload time, thereby accelerating your post-production process and allowing you to dive into editing and color correction tasks more swiftly.The Media Dock is equipped to house up to three Blackmagic Media Modules, providing high-speed access to media from multiple URSA Cine cameras concurrently. This feature not only enhances your productivity but also facilitates seamless collaboration across your team.One of the standout features of the Media Dock is its four high-speed 10G Ethernet ports. These ports allow up to four separate editing workstations to connect directly, ensuring lightning-fast performance even when multiple users are connected simultaneously. This feature is a game-changer for busy production environments where speed and efficiency are paramount.Additionally, the Media Dock boasts a USB-C connection that supports Ethernet, enabling you to transfer media effortlessly using a simple USB-C cable connected to your computer. This feature adds another layer of convenience to your post-production workflow.To top it all off, the Media Dock also features an HDMI output that allows you to monitor the status of your media in real time on a TV or monitor. This real-time monitoring capability ensures that you're always in the loop about your media's status, further enhancing your workflow efficiency.In summary, the Media Dock is a robust, high-performance tool that is designed to supercharge your post-production workflow, offering high-speed access, seamless network sharing, and real-time monitoring capabilities.

The integration of technological innovations, such as In-Memory Analytics, Cloud Computing, Mobile Connectivity, and Social Media, with business practice can enable significant competitive advantage. In order to embrace recent challenges and changes in the governance of IT strategies, SAP and its think tank - the Business Transformation Academy (BTA) - have jointly developed the Digital Capability Framework (DCF). Digital Enterprise Transformation: A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT by Axel Uhl and Lars Alexander Gollenia outlines the DCF which comprises six specific capabilities: Innovation Management, Transformation Management, IT Excellence, Customer Centricity, Effective Knowledge Worker, and Operational Excellence. In cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), Queensland University of Technology (Australia), University of Liechtenstein (Principality of Liechtenstein), and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), SAP and the BTA have been validating each capability and the corresponding maturity models based on analyzing several ’lighthouse’ case studies comprising: SAMSUNG, IBM, Finanz Informatik, The Walt Disney Company, Google Inc., HILTI AG. Digital Enterprise Transformation presents how these companies take advantage of innovative IT and how they develop their digital capabilities. On top the authors also develop and present a range of novel yet hands-on Digital Use Cases for a number of different industries which have emerged from innovative technological trends such as: Big Data, Cloud Computing, 3D Printing and Internet of Things.

A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world.New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things―mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. New media proliferates “programmed visions,” which seek to shape and predict―even embody―a future based on past data. These programmed visions have also made computers, based on metaphor, metaphors for metaphor itself, for a general logic of substitutability. Chun argues that the clarity offered by software as metaphor should make us pause, because software also engenders a profound sense of ignorance: who knows what lurks behind our smiling interfaces, behind the objects we click and manipulate? The combination of what can be seen and not seen, known (knowable) and not known―its separation of interface from algorithm and software from hardware―makes it a powerful metaphor for everything we believe is invisible yet generates visible, logical effects, from genetics to the invisible hand of the market, from ideology to culture.

A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world.New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things―mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. New media proliferates “programmed visions,” which seek to shape and predict―even embody―a future based on past data. These programmed visions have also made computers, based on metaphor, metaphors for metaphor itself, for a general logic of substitutability. Chun argues that the clarity offered by software as metaphor should make us pause, because software also engenders a profound sense of ignorance: who knows what lurks behind our smiling interfaces, behind the objects we click and manipulate? The combination of what can be seen and not seen, known (knowable) and not known―its separation of interface from algorithm and software from hardware―makes it a powerful metaphor for everything we believe is invisible yet generates visible, logical effects, from genetics to the invisible hand of the market, from ideology to culture.

Lana and Lilly Wachowski have redefined the technically and topically possible while joyfully defying audience expectations. Visionary films like The Matrix trilogy and Cloud Atlas have made them the world's most influential transgender media producers, and their coming out retroactively put trans* aesthetics at the very center of popular American culture. Cáel M. Keegan views the Wachowskis films as an approach to trans* experience that maps a transgender journey and the promise we might learn "to sense beyond the limits of the given world." Keegan reveals how the filmmakers take up the relationship between identity and coding (be it computers or genes), inheritance and belonging, and how transgender becoming connects to a utopian vision of a post-racial order. Along the way, he theorizes a trans* aesthetic that explores the plasticity of cinema to create new social worlds, new temporalities, and new sensory inputs and outputs. Film comes to disrupt, rearrange, and evolve the cinematic exchange with the senses in the same manner that trans* disrupts, rearranges, and evolves discrete genders and sexes.