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  Re: The Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant: Adventure Time and Existentialism

  Existentialism in Adventure Time

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  Alexis Aguam NYU TSOA

  Friday, January 9, 2015 — 4:10 pm

  as the beginning. If and when I have kids they will have a steady diet of Adventure Time, to go along ... impetus to live a significant life. Adventure Time is pretty clear in at least this one aspect: life is ...
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  Tracing the Post-Human impulse: Confessions of the Messenger

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  Jason Derby Georgia State University

  January 19, 2015

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  of incredible abilities, not the least of which is their astounding intelligence, and has exhausted ... marker at the far end of the post-human then how can we think of the beginning of this process? Following ... argument better by framing it in terms of exposure. That is to say that we can see the beginning of the ...
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  Carnal Tension, Superficial Logic: The Feminine Body and Its Surface in LUCY and UNDER THE SKIN

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  Swagato Chakravorty Yale University

  January 22, 2015

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  surface. In Lucy, for example, her “evolution” begins by way of a superficial penetration. As the drugs ...
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  Re: Carnal Tension, Superficial Logic: The Feminine Body and Its Surface in LUCY and UNDER THE SKIN

  Re: Body/Screen/Skin

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  Swagato Chakravorty Yale University

  Thursday, January 22, 2015 — 7:21 pm

  Bruno's recent book, "Surface," begins exactly this project. Interestingly, your conflation ...
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  Temporary Sites of Memory & the Spectacle: The Performance of JR's Unframed Project as Cultural Identity

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  Imani Wadud University of Regensburg

  January 26, 2015

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  Temporary Sites of Memory & the Spectacle: The Performance of JR's Unframed Project as Cultural Identity visual culture visual activism temporary sites of memory street art JR identity performance cultural identity art as social practice Curator& ...
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  Re: Temporary Sites of Memory & the Spectacle: The Performance of JR's Unframed Project as Cultural Identity

  Scale, Space, and Memory

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  Sunny Stalter-Pace Auburn University

  Monday, January 26, 2015 — 8:26 pm

  most of their context, or at least their referentiality. Instead, they make me think of Walter ...
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  OBEY Giant: A Case Study in the Semiotics of Consumption

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  Ryan Schnurr University of Illinois-Chicago

  January 27, 2015

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  researcher to question his surroundings. In this way, at least, it seems not to have strayed far from the ...
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  Stations of the Elevated and the Genealogy of the Street Art Film

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  Sunny Stalter-Pace Auburn University

  January 28, 2015

  least connects to the realities of the landscape and culture while the Coppertone baby and the Marlboro ...
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  No Knight, no flight: Television's missing Dark Knight and Man of Steel

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  Ryan Lizardi SUNY Polytechnic Institute

  February 02, 2015

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  No Knight, no flight: Television's missing Dark Knight and Man of Steel television Superman film comic books Batman on TV Batman Curator's Note Batman has enjoyed a long and varied history on television, however, the Caped Crusader’s most recent ...
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  Re: No Knight, no flight: Television's missing Dark Knight and Man of Steel

  Beginning again and again

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  Ryan Lizardi SUNY Polytechnic Institute

  Tuesday, February 3, 2015 — 3:27 am

  Thank you for the kind words, and the great additional thoughts. I think your point about television being the perfect form for cyclical re-consumption of the origin story as transformation is so important to consider. I am thinking of the ways in which t ...

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