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• In Media Res
  Re: Crashing GamerGate

  "pathologies of particular SWM"

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  Diana Pozo UC Santa Barbara

  Tuesday, November 11, 2014 — 7:04 pm

  Thank you so much for taking up and clarifying Nakamura's points on race, civil rights history, and the construction of the SJW. "I’m also aware of another dynamic of these conversations, which Nakamura pointed out to vigorous crowd snapping: th ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism

  Realism is an aesthetic

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  Diana Pozo UC Santa Barbara

  Tuesday, November 11, 2014 — 10:23 pm

  Thanks so much for responding and for this thoughtful discussion of the concept of realism. Realism is usually associated with modernism, so I can see how it would seem outdated in a post-postmodern theoretical context. Nevertheless, discussions of realis ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism

  Games Realism, broken down

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  Diana Pozo UC Santa Barbara

  Wednesday, November 12, 2014 — 4:00 am

  Wow, Amanda and Matt! I had no idea my post would be so provocative. But I am glad it has been, because I think this conversation is really productive. The original post's aim was not to argue that queer games are realist, but to discuss the way thes ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games

  Punishment as a theoretical category

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  Diana Pozo UC Santa Barbara

  Wednesday, November 12, 2014 — 5:50 pm

  Thanks, Kishonna, for this discussion of the punishment of blackness in video games. I am really interested in this discussion of games as a site of punishment, and I liked how you brought together a set of different modes of racism in games, including bo ...