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  The End is Horrible: Technology and the Apocalypse

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  Keira Hambrick University of Nevada, Reno

  June 06, 2011

  the possible routes to our demise. The ways we discuss this demise have evolved with new developments ... each possibility presents its own set of horrors. Why do we invest so much energy in these grim thought ...
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  Documenting Change in Points of Contact

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  Ben Miller Georgia State University

  September 07, 2011

  3 comments

  just one possible path. That path of meaningful movement through media is built on a piece of technical ... alluded to during an interview, possibly regarding pride, nationalism, or the shifted identities of former ...
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  Re: Masking the Difficulties of the Superhero Film Adaptation

  RE: MASK AS CHARACTER

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  Greg M. Smith Georgia State University

  Tuesday, February 24, 2009 — 3:28 pm

  technologized visual equivalent of Matt Murdock's super-hearing (which also possibly helps to distract us ... inventive Iron Man solution).  And it's certainly possible that a filmmaker can USE these difficulties ...
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  I have an Army/We have a Hulk: Thinking Politics in The Avengers

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  john a. sweeney University of Hawaii at Manoa, Dept. of Political Science

  May 09, 2012

  4 comments

  conditions of possibility for politics in our historical moment, specifically as bodies subject to the ... possibility for politics yoked to presencing a mutative capacity? Is there an inherent horror to politics? ...
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  Joss Whedon's The Avengers

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  Roger Whitson Washington State University

  May 08, 2012

  8 comments

  name. The name might just mark the fact that Whedon is directing the film. And yet the possibility of ... the monthly publication of The Avengers possible. Charles Hatfield admits in his recent book on Jack ...
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  The Digital Evolution?: From Tabletop to Online Simulation

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  Shane Toepfer University of North Georgia

  June 29, 2012

  3 comments

  possibilities, and for almost thirty years the game has cultivated a small, dedicated fanbase that purchases ... community espoused the "unlimited possibilities" the online format would offer for the game and ...
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  The Price of Privilege: HBO's Girls and the Logic of Post-

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  Chris Tokuhama University of Southern California

  January 11, 2013

  1 comment

  the widest audience possible but I think that the more interesting question is to consider just who ... extended adolescence of Hannah Horvath but also, more dangerously, suggests a possible reason why the ...
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  The Bear Necessities: Steam of Life

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  Tarja Laine University of Amsterdam

  January 30, 2013

  3 comments

  with animals. To what extent are such friendships even possible, unless based on animal ... romanticization, projective identification or anthropocentric ventriloquism? But to deny such possibility ...
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  God Made a Farmer

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  Rachel Silverman Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

  June 09, 2013

  3 comments

  reconstitute as much of it as possible as soon as possible.” It is, according to Lakoff, about the destruction ...
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  New Adventures in Hi-Fi: Studying Popular Music Fandom in the Digital Age

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  Lucy Bennett School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies, Cardiff University

  August 30, 2013

  connection. For instance, Twitter has offered fans the possibility to not only connect with each other and ... may possibly infiltrate and disrupt experiences for some of those who are in attendance. Conversely, ...

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