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  Truth and Knowledge in LEGO Bi-Dimensions

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  Alan Chu University of Arizona

  June 26, 2014

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  Truth and Knowledge in LEGO Bi-Dimensions parody LEGO Movie LEGO epistemology Curator's Note In the excerpted scene from the LEGO Movie, Emmet follows what is a longstanding trope in cinematic storytelling: the fulfillment of a previously unrealized ...
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  Re: LEGO’s Transformations and The Creativity vs. Conformity Debate

  On the subject of play

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  Alan Chu University of Arizona

  Thursday, June 26, 2014 — 6:03 am

  play. To do so, after all, eliminates the possibility of new discovery, which the toys of the best ...
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  Re: LEGO Fandom, Cyber Feudalism, and Convergence Culture in Classic-Castle.com

  Garret, I’m glad that Drew

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  Penn State University

  Thursday, June 26, 2014 — 4:41 pm

  Garret, I'm glad that Drew asked you to expand. I find it particularly interesting that the group finds other related topics to discuss between releases. I would think that many communities would fall apart over a long period of inactivity. Very impr ...
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  Gay Sexuality and AIDS in An Early Frost

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  Melanie Kohnen Lewis & Clark College

  August 04, 2014

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  Gay Sexuality and AIDS in An Early Frost televison gay identity AIDS Curator's Note An Early Frost is a 1985 made-for-TV movie that deals with a young lawyer coming out to this family as both gay and as someone recently diagnosed with AIDS. Like othe ...
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  The Blood is the Life/Death: Queer Contagion and Viral Vampirism in the Age of HIV/AIDS

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  Andrew Owens DePaul University

  August 05, 2014

  9 comments

  Plague: AIDS and the American Media, making this disease as “spooky as possible helped make AIDS ...
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  Re: Gay Sexuality and AIDS in An Early Frost

  I’m glad you enjoyed my post

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  Melanie Kohnen Lewis & Clark College

  Tuesday, August 5, 2014 — 6:28 pm

  I'm glad you enjoyed my post and that it made you think about the film in a different light! I didn't have a chance to comment on the coming out aspect of the argument because of the word limit, but I also find it fascinating. There is a lot goi ...
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  DMC: Magic for Change

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  Laurel Ahnert Georgia State University

  August 14, 2014

  1 comment

  illusion of a possibility." He is firmly against the notion of "real" magic, upholding ...
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  Re: DMC: Magic for Change

  Social Magic vs Social Circus vs Self-Promotion

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  Joe Culpepper University of Toronto

  Thursday, August 14, 2014 — 7:22 pm

  low-income neighborhood). Social magic is an exciting possibility and has the potential to liberate magicians ...
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  Sleight of Hand: A Model of secrecy in public

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  Jason Derby Georgia State University

  August 15, 2014

  demand by Jay to focus on his hands creates the possibility that we will be subsumed into a world where ... at the same time altering the horizon of possibilities. This relation does not take place in dark ...
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  Post-Feminism & the Dehumanization of Sex Workers in SNL's Moet & Chandon Sketch

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  Raechel Tiffe University of Minnesota

  August 18, 2014

  1 comment

  girls disappeared, but I’m alive. Thanks champagne!” We also learn that Brecky was “cut in half for ...

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