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  Why Moral Philosophy?

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  Brian Price University of Toronto

  January 30, 2023

  instead, are two of the reasons I have devoted myself, for at least fifteen years now, to moral philosophy. ... to think about it” (1981, 10). This implies, for me, at least two things: that in being taught by the ... moral philosophy, at least when it is being written, as “philosophy” implies, as a question. Moral ...
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  All the Feels

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  Adrian Martin Monash University & EQZE Film School

  March 13, 2023

  classic, gruesome, eye-slitting effect at the beginning of Luis Buñuel’s and Salvador Dalí’s Un chien ... to believe then – and still believe today – that screen pedagogy is (at least in part) an attempt to ... sacrificed not the eye of a live human but a dead calf. OK, I know that the beginning of Un chien andalou can ...
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  The Intersection between Media and the Dark Side of Interpersonal Relationships: Asian Fetish

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  Igor Kanashiro Balota Texas Tech University

  January 19, 2023

  garage, he begins to talk about how sitting in this car takes him back in time 25 years ago; Mark follows ... from the Philippines. The beginning of the clip is enough to shock the audience since Mark is 58 years ... her stay with him; after stepping out of the car, he begins to talk about his previous marriage and ...
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  My Default State is Phased

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  Stephanie Burt Harvard University

  September 04, 2023

  in at least four big ways.   1. Derealization and disembodiment. That's the feeling that you ... Mutant Massacre, in Fantastic Four vs. X-Men (1987), and when she returns from Whedonspace, beginning ... allows trans girls-- OK, some trans girls; OK, at the least, me-- to experience those kinds of bonds ...
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  Follow the Pleat: Deleuze, Design, and the Hollywood Musical

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  James Tweedie University of Washington

  November 06, 2023

  begins at the interface of mathematics and aesthetics, with calculus framed as an apparatus for the ... key concept proliferate throughout The Fold, beginning with features of the natural world, from the ... chapter that begins with a meditation on cloth and fashion in the baroque age. Titled “The New Harmony,” ...
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  The Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Some Belated Thoughts on “Barbenheimer”

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  Dominic Pettman New School University

  October 16, 2023

  course—in whatever film the producers deem appropriate. (Including, background actors.). At the beginning of ... a cudgel to beat down and blackmail the writers and actors back to work for at least a few crumbs of the ... lockdowns, providing at least some sense of shared experience, even as we all binged them in different places ...
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  A Very Brief History of Gamergate, 2012-2016

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  Caren Pagel Georgia State University

  February 20, 2023

  existed for only a few months during the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015, but its origins and ... the movement. However, there are indications that remnants of the Gamergate campaign—or at least its ...
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  Comments on "Woman, Life, Freedom"

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  Shirin Ebadi

  February 06, 2023

  “at least” label because the Islamic Republic never officially announces any statistics. Thus, getting ... reports by human rights organizations. Therefore, I can say that “at least” five-hundred-forty people were ... killed during these protests, and “at least” sixty-eight of them were under the age of eighteen. ...
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  Catfishing Is Being Deceptive: The Dark Side of Online Dating

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  Ryan J. Martinez Texas Tech University

  January 18, 2023

  Terrance's journey together does not begin here. They dated ten years prior. However, the universe made ...
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  Against Identification

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  Daniel Morgan University of Chicago

  February 02, 2023

  Curator's Note Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966) begins, famously, with a meta-cinematic sequence. The ... illuminated tips of an arc lamp flare in the darkness, and then images begin with flashing clips evoking film ... infantile drama: how infants begin to relate to the world around them, how they differentiate self from ...

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