As far as the book is concerned, this disability functions as a device to give him "character" and to evoke pity in the reader.
That is the direction of the superlattice, divided into components, together functioning as a device.
I propose that masks could be understood as roving, material instances of a screen, one that bars access to the visage while functioning as a device of projection for others.
To a certain extent that narrative functions as a device that enables us to see more of the charnel house chaos of Auschwitz-Birkenau (where part of Nemes' family was killed) than we would otherwise encounter, a skeleton key, in effect, to different circles of hell.
RFD is a device with reduced functionality which can only function as an end device.
Mr. Bogost also designed Opinions to function as a polling device.
If, as expected, Apple soon introduces a tablet computer that can function as a reading device, and if it embraces an open standard like ePub, Amazon will have to reconsider its closed approach, Mr. Weiner said.
The 3-D printer could function as a cooking device, creating silicone molds for pill-sized dishes flavored, say, like watermelon, bacon and eggs or even beef Bourguignon, he said, and he could also make edible molds out of cornstarch.
One is that the value of classification lies in its function as a heuristic device, i.e. as a help construction.
In a 2009 CounterPunch article on health care reform, for instance, he expressed misgivings about legalized abortion, saying that it was "now widening in its function as a eugenic device".
